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well, ok..good...i'm glad to hear positive responses.
my point is, do you just post about your particular feelings and then wake up and live it all over again, or do you take action, real action to make things change in your life.
maybe you need to leave home and move out, maybe you need a change of meds, maybe you need a new job or career...but all those things take action...not wishful thinking.
i have my problems (or i wouldn't be here) but i strive every day to solve them and i just wondered if depression can be helped in a similar way.
No disrespect intended to anyone!!!

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Let me explain something to you. It may be the case since you say that you don't suffer from depression.
When you are depressed you don't simply consider that your life sucks, but your brain generates the absolute certainty that no happy life is possible, and those who ARE happy must be crazy. That is why you don't "take action" and "snap yourself out it".

We know that adversities require reaction, but depression disables the reaction engine in the brain.
When a crisis strikes posting here is already a huge act of courage, because your instinct just tells you to cuddle in a corner and cry until you starve.
Understand?