Hi Liveinthepresent

Welcome to NeuroTalk.

I agree with Lara - talking with your prescribing doctor is a great idea. Sometimes anti-depressants stop working so discussing the option of trying one with a different pharmacology with your doctor is a good plan.

Also, in my experience, a combination of CBT and an anti-depressant has been far more helpful for me than either has been in isolation.

I would be very cautious about mixing alcohol and an anti-depressant. In a pharmacological sense alcohol is a depressant so having two drugs in your body at the same time which "fight" each other does not sound like a good idea to me.