It is very important for you to know that Bipolar disorder treatment is different than the treatment for simple depression. Typically an antidepressant is not used alone but together with a mood stabilizer (such as Depakote).

You should also know that it is common for Bipolar sufferers to self-medicate with alcohol, and to find that their symptoms get much worse when they quit drinking. With less than two weeks of sobriety, though, it’s hard to tell anything. (I congratulate you on your decision to quit drinking, by the way–I quit ten years ago myself.) I urge you to work with a good psychiatrist as you work toward stable abstinence.

One more comment…I went to AA for a number of years, and I was quite disheartened by the attitude of some AA members that dually diagnosed people should not take psychiatric medications on the grounds that they "weren’t really sober" if they did so. Needless to say, this is terrible advice, and should be ignored. The best thing I learned in AA is this: "Just don’t drink, even if your ass falls off."