I never fooled myself into thinking that the PC forums would be the solution for all my problems.

I'm here to try and learn something useful that will perhaps help me make sense of things or give me a different perspective regarding my own issues.

I read and participate on other people's posts more than I post myself. I read people's stories and can relate to some of them, it makes me feel I am at least not alone. I acquire knowledge through people's accounts on their journeys through depression and other mental illnesses.

That is how I draw help from this forums. And I am grateful to the people who put it together and maintain it, and thankful that the Internet can sometimes be a useful thing because of forums like PC.

But at the end of the day... it's always up to the person who's suffering to find his/her way out.