Hi! I'm also new in this forum and I happen to find this site & forum because I believe I am also one of all the other people who are in this community. Looking for answers and wanting/desiring to get out of this condition. As I evaluate myself for the past years, as far as I can remember, I have had episodes of depression (I don't know yet about being bipolar yet I doubt that I have OCD as well) though I may look normal and trying hard to be, I know deep inside there is something different in me than normal and I don't like it. I had struggled hard to fight away my episodes but I am led to this conclusion that I need to do something about it now to stop it from coming back. So here I am, wanting and doing something to take control of my thoughts and emotions and not my thoughts and emotions taking control of me.