Isn't it odd Sabrina how we talk to ourselves is not how we would talk to any other freind or family..or even a stranger? Yet we find it "ok" to beat ourselves up and hurt or spirtis...yet if we saw somone in the kinda distress we were in we would be quick to jump to their aid? I know when you are where you are...In the depths of what I call the "hurting stage" you feel you have no power and will forever be in crisis, but obviously that is not the case. We (those suffering from depression) can be the strongest people, stronger at times I belive than those that do not deal with depression. We have come from the depths of extreme hurt and lived to talk about it. You have strength, and you are loved, you are needed by the very fact God put you on this earth. Pain will pass, and hopefully you will be able to post somthing on this message board to help somone from the depths of their hurting stage, stating "I have been there, I know what you are going through, there is hope"