As you said, the answer is different for everyone. I'm still muddling about the answer for myself. I haven't felt super awesome for a year or so, but I haven't had any serious thoughts about self harm in that same time period. That's good. But part of me wonders is it good enough. Is simply not wanting to kill myself my new normal? I hope not. But it is a marked improvement over being in the depths a bad depression. I've held on to the same job for over a year and I'm not drinking, so those are two short term successes. Huge successes actually. So I hold onto hope that things can and will get better.

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