Do you feel like meds work really well for you? I'm curious, because back when I had my first episode of depression, it felt really "chemical". My normal behavior changed. When I started taking medication, I felt like I had had my normal self restored.

Over the years, though, medication has ceased to work as well as it used to. I've developed unhealthy patterns of behaving. Therapy helps me to fight back against this. It's a far from perfect situation, but I need both the meds and therapy to remain even moderately functional.

I should probably add that somewhere in the middle of the depression story, I developed 2-3 autoimmune illnesses, so I have issues with lost career and income and the ability to do lots of things I used to enjoy to deal with as well.