Hit a Wall

[Shannon]

If you believe that your depression may be in any way life threatening, that should always take priority. The program is pushing you to become more self sufficient, and losing your job is not going in that direction.

AM is designed to be used all the way through, and cutting off in the middle is not good. It's building stage by stage and when you stop in the middle it leaves things unfinished. The ONLY reason you should ever stop using it in the middle is if you believe there is a life threatening depressive response.

I have seen it happen that someone who is living with their parents will become depressed because the program is pushing them to be self sufficient and they are afraid to move out, and being caught between the two makes them feel hopeless. Losing one's job is hard for a man, because that is often deeply tied in with his sense of value as a man.

So if you can keep going. If you think it's making your depression life threatening, stop, regroup, feel better... but then you'll probably have to start over.