Hi zinco,

My apologies! I'm definitely wrong in your case for sure and it is clear that you are getting major benefits from non-drug practices (not that I'm always against drugs). I'm haven't read back in this section very far and I might well have the wrong general impression too.

We have some overlap of experience. SSRIs didn't really help my depression either. Therapy might have helped a little. Exercise, yoga and getting treated for hypothyroidism definitely helped, but nothing really resolved the whole thing for me until recently. Mine was pretty severe - seriously debilitating, but not really suicidal and not very cyclic.

Even though you're super active, since you asked, I'll attempt to make a list of things you might not have tried.

1. Check for medical problems. There is a book called "the Ultramind Solution" by Mark Hyman that's interesting. He explains that lots of medical problems from hypothyroidism to food allergies to vitamin deficiencies to heavy metal toxicity to infections as well as diet can have major effects on brain function including depression. He had a bad case of this himself.

2. Since your depression is seasonal, have you ever tried light therapy?

3. I'm impressed by this post by butterfly443000
http://forums.psychcentral.com/new-m...-hi-there.html
who had a huge success from brain training.

4. Yoga? (this helps me quite a bit, when I actually do it).

5. "snap club" is what did it for me in a really big way
http://forums.psychcentral.com/depre...n-escaped.html

6. I saw an ad for what looked like "home electroshock therapy" on the front page of this site!? Sounds questionable, but who knows, maybe it works?

Anyone else have ideas? It would actually be interesting to see a complete lists of all things that are claimed to help depression.