I can totally relate. My husband and I did in fact declare bankruptcy at one point. We've moved several times due to my husband's job, so it's been hard to maintain a stable social support network. I had to have an emergency appendectomy 6 weeks after the birth of our first child. Then we had an unplanned pregancy, and I had another child just 12 months after the first one -- that's when my depression started, although this second child has been an incredible blessing and I thank God for her and my other kids every day. A few years later I miscarried twins: first one, then the other. Throughout all this my husband and I had NO family support -- nobody to help out at all. We had to do it all ourselves. I grew up with alcoholic parents, and they were a source of continuous stress, not any sort of comfort at all.

I have repeatedly questioned to my psychiatrists whether my depression is physiological or just induced by all the environmental stressors I've been through, so I am right there with you on the question that it's not always a chemical imbalance.

It's good that you are on meds and getting therapy, and esp. that it sounds like you and your husband have a solid marriage.

Hang in there!