I agree with everyone else - this area is for depression of all types and OF COURSE more of the posts will deal with chronic depression. Basically, there are more people who need to come to a site like this for longer, or feel they benefit from this type of site, who struggle with something long term than someone who has situational short term depression.

that doesn't mean you can't gain from this area, and that you won't find people going through similar things and learn.

Depression covers a lot of different types of depression - it's a blanket term for a lot of different things with certain similarities.

I'm sorry you're feeling this way, and even though it's for not so good reasons I'm glad you're not drinking. I wish you had MONEY to drink but at least, not having that money has stopped you from getting stuck into that potentially harmful cycle of drinking the worries away.

hope you feel better