Definition of my depression to DD 16

[Lotty32]

I am an alcoholic and have been sober for 6 months. Whilst to me this seems an amazingly long time - not so for my DD who I have put through hell at times. I was put on Sertraline when I went into treatment which I'm still on. She asked me yesterday if I suffered from depression. I am trying to be totally truthful now so answered that I am on a depressant and have had mild depression but don't currently feel I am depressed. She is very black and white and doesn't understand why I'm not "fixed". Whilst I know only too well what I have put her through emotionally - getting sober hasn't been easy - and I'm NOW being the best mother I can be.
Would love any advice from any others who have had similar experience. Thank you

So your antidepressant suppresses the black feelings. it’s like taking an aspirin to help with backache - it doesn’t take away/fix the slipped disc but stops it hurting. If only there was a magic pill that fixed it.

The human body is just a soup of good old chemicals - sometimes the balance is out of whack and medication needed to help level it all out. Like a swimming pool! When you run you get that euphoric blast don’t you?

6 months is doing really well. Depression and alcoholism are long haul issues. It’s hard to explain to someone who has had neither.

Many thx and I know I am in it for life!