Something to Think About: Is My Depression a Sign That I’m on the Wrong Path?

As a recovering alcoholic, if I am going to approach my recovery from a spiritual and emotional stand-point, it helps me to look at things in the following way:

The majority of my illness, my poor mental health, and my addictions were my body having a bad reaction to situations that it shouldn’t have been in.

OK, let me explain that.

You know when you eat something you’re not supposed to and your body breaks out in illness?

That was my addiction.

I’m not “randomly” an alcoholic — I didn’t “cross a line” and take things too far. My entire drinking history -short though it may have been- was plagued with terror, despair, and chaos, turning me into a raging beast of vitrolic calamity with every shot of whiskey. .

What if all my other problems are reactions to certain things?

What if, after all — I am BUILT WITH PURPOSE?

I was put here on earth to do something good and worthwhile, every time I suffered a bout of depression, a “rage,” or dealt with addiction — that was my spirit communicating with me through my body, saying:

“Nope, this is the wrong path for you. You’re not supposed to be in this…