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TryingToCope said:
I feel the same way most of the time. My husband keeps telling me that I have nothing to be depressed about.

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I understand where he is coming from on that -- and I know that is so not-the-point. A person can have what looks like the best life in the world and still be depressed. Take the late Christina Onassis -- heir to the greatest shipping fortune in the world. She was depressed all of her life and finally "accidentally" OD'd.

Then you can take someone who lives in poverty like Mother Teresa and is apparently, if not happy, joyous about her life and a comfort to others.

Depression is an illness and like all illnesses, it does not ask if we are rich or poor, white or black or green, blessed or cursed. As Mary Fisher in a famous speech about the disease AIDS, depression asks only if we are human.