I have seen a lot of you talking about something being triggering - can I ask what you mean by that? Something that happens now which reminds you of something painful in your past? And if so, what techniques do you use to combat those feelings?

I am struggling just now and it is mainly to do with the time of year, I think - this time last year I was extremely low and was hospitalised. But I can't really understand why it's affecting me so much now when things are different to last year, though not back to how I would have felt before depression, and it also seems a bit circular - am I just low now because I was low in the past? - so does it never go away?

Any ideas, anyone? I'm feeling a bit stuck.