Depression and emotional eating. I can't stop! please help...

I have been suffering from clinical depression for about 6 years, and I'm currently being treated with anti-depressants, but since my recent RNY my depression seems to have re-surfaced and I don't know what to do. To make matters worse, I lost my job a few weeks ago and I have turned to my old stand-by comfort: food. It seems like i eat all day. i go out of my way to find things i can "cheat" with, like sugar-free ice cream, or cheese blintzes, and i gorge away. my meal-times do include the 70/30 but my portions seem to have gotten huge. it's like i can eat so much, sometimes up to a full cup of food (i am 6 months out). sometimes it makes me very uncomfortable to overeat, but i haven't thrown up from stuffing my pouch, and i worry.. have i stretched my pouch? i haven't lost any weight in a month. is this the end for me? will i be 245 lbs forever? i try to get out and exercise, but my depression makes it next to impossible to even leave the house (assuming i can even get out of bed before 2 pm). have i ruined everything? is my weight loss over? the plateau is very discouraging, my emotional eating is out of control (i KNOW it's a problem, i KNOW i need to make better choices, i KNOW i need to take control, but my self esteem is non-existant right now) and this depression is kicking my butt. i feel like such a failure. i don't have health insurance anymore, so i can't even go to counseling. Do i double up on my anti-depressants? do i check in to the loony bin? or do i just give up?<BR> i am beside myself. please help. :(

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