Glad you posted. Always good to hear people's story. I have done the work and go to school thing and it just burned me out with not enough sleep. I had to completely sleep for 12 hours per day on the weekend to stay out of the worrying mode.

Dark thoughts eventually fade away when we don't give them that energy and attention. A therapist is a good thing to help with that.

If you are interested in dealing with dark thoughts, there is a show that was on NPR radio and also has a transcript. I listened the other night and it was revealing and hopeful.
Here is the post on PC. forums.psychcentral.com/.../383862-dealing-dark-thoughts.html