Depression isn't just one simple easily defined 'thing'. It is all sorts of neg. thinking, learned experiences like the bullying you had to deal with as a child, empty nester issues, causing you to feel like you have no purpose. All the things you wrote about can lead to clinical depression.

Now, how to 'choose' a different way to think, put behind or learn to live with the childhood bullying or finding a new purpose. End frustration over low inclome too.

Do you have close friends who have one or two of the same issues you can share with. I've found that when I have someone around me who has a similar issue, they can really understand it and validate my feelings, which does really help lift me up.

What doesn't work well is to go to a support group and "*itch" about it and cause it to be ingrained even deeper into my brain. I've gone to such sessions, like when I went to Al anon. I really got into the wrong group.

Talk therapy is so important in depressed, frustrated, etc people. But as you said, you can't have a threapist right now, so use us here at PC if you don't have irl people to help you, Nicks Nose!


We are all pulling for you