DePressMe,

It can be just hours for me. Something can happen and I will plummet right away, like stepping off the edge of a cliff into a freefall.

Other times I can be going pretty well for days then feel it coming on, a slowing down physically and mentally... as if I have a dimmer switch and it's being turned toward dim.

Part of that is because I rely on external validation, I'm sure. If I could learn to find that internally, then the ups and downs would be less frequent, I think. If I could ignore or take more time with the external things that I allow to define me, I think I would even out some.

Do you notice what happens when you begin to start feeling depressed? The key might be right there and each time of slowly becoming depressed an opportunity to learn.

What do you think?