The best help for depression, in my view, is to talk to a psychiatrist, take prescribed medications to improve the brain chemistry, and then talk to a therapist about the things that are negative that seem to hold back the positive things that you believe about life.

I once knew a woman who was seriously ill with bone cancer who had the most positive view about her life I've ever known. Her comment about it all was that "people don't like to hear the negative things; they want to know the positive things, so I never talk about my illness." She was a delight to know.

We have to do something similar in depression, I think. After the best therapy, the proper "cocktail" of medications to relieve symptoms, we have a very good chance of finding the "sunlight" in our life rather than living in the inner "darkness". That darkness can be almost consuming if we let it. It's a fight we go through to see the other side of life for us unless we have help. We'll try to help here, and you need to try by seeing the good therapist and talking more about what's bothering you inside.

If you are unable to see a therapist, you may have still the ability to live by your deepest inner principles. Living that way, you will find success, and I don't know of any better way to achieve that than to have strong spiritual support. Prayer helps to dispel depression, and it can lead to a very rewarding inner life for you.

I hope you will be able to afford treatment and get out in front of the things that are driving your thought right now. There is very good help out there, and you deserve it for your own contentment.

Please keep in touch and let us know how you are getting along.