It is like the phrase..."If you have to ask the question, then you already know the answer."

This is the same for depression.
It was stated well above, and Rohag said it well: "If you're posting, clearly you haven't lost. If we're posting, sleeping, breathing, eating, even hurting, then we haven't lost."

If you are writing something in the forum you are not losing. You are fighting for your life!! We already know the answer...just by being here we are not losing, we are fighting. Albeit a struggle, like it or not, we are doing so just the same.

Last evening I was sitting alone, as with all weekends, stitching and I looked around the room and said out loud, "Why do we go to bed and get up each morning only to do it all over again the next day? Why?"

I don't have the answer, but I am sure there are many happy people out there in the world that could provide a answer. Whether it would make sense to those of us who suffer day and fight a good battle while feeling as though we are losing each day...I don't know.

During my severe panic attack on Monday and Tuesday of last week, as I posted in the 'frailty' thread, I knew I was losing the battle. And if not for my current meds regimen I truly believe I would have lost my battle during one of those two days. But here I am still here, still fighting, still putting $10 at a time in my gas tank, still doing all the things we are suppose to do daily.