Hi Christina,
I agree that meds don't fix everything. The way I figure out true clinical depression is when I feel helpless, and feel that I've failed my family. The sui, thoughts pop up during this time. But a time like now, when I am sad a lot of the time, and apprehensive a lot of the time, too, I am not sure how to classify this. When I get totally pissed off at the smallest things, I am not sure if this is hypomania either.
My pdoc asks my needs, but I can't really tell her. So, who knows?

Btw, way to go with the nose piercing! I saw this lady today who was maybe in her sixties and she had this super cool piercing that went from her earlobe to the inner part of her lobe. She actually had many piercings, but this one impressed me because her earring connected both of the piercings. The lady and her husband own a retro store that my son loves to visit.

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