People tend to come post on forums when they are in trouble/misery/bad places. It's a way of reaching out for help. I was in a place of sheer torture back in January, but THANK HEAVENS am doing much better now after some med tweaks.

I think it's kind of a characteristic of active depression to not see, or not report clearly, what we are doing to help ourselves. Chances are almost everyone here is doing SOMETHING to help themselves, but it scarcely dawns on them that's what it is....Or it doesn't feel like it's helping because the depression is still so awful.