I'm trying to focus on reducing my expectations of life and people. I'm a perfectionist and a control freak. This causes a lot of emotional pain, as you can imagine.

By making a few behavioral changes, like reducing expectations, perhaps we can handle living with depression until some new antidepressant is released.

Also, I accept the fact that I'll always be prone to depression, and I try to figure out the triggers. One thing is anger. When I get angry with myself, I get angry with the world and depressed because life is so difficult to handle. I need to learn to be easier on myself.