I tried to reply to this earlier, but we keep having momentary power outages just barely long enough to knock out the computer, and I think my reply got lost in one of those.

Anyway, I want you to know that it does get better. I had depresion since childhood and for at least 25-30 years or so, and it's starting to be hard to remember what it was really like. I remember enough to be afraid of it, but the sadnesses that I have now are nothing like the depression I used to have. I still have work to do, and I'm pretty sure that if I stopped working on it I would be at high risk for going strait back to the abyss. It's still hard work, but the misery that I used to have is gone.

It really doesn't have to stay like this for you either.

(((((((hugs))))))))
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