Hi all,

I guess I'm being judgemental, and I'm mostly judging myself. I think about how I (and many of us here) have an intelligent mind, a roof over our heads, enough to eat today, social support if we do not provide those things for ourselves, and yet we still have mental health issues. I'm feeling like a whiner, that I don't have any good reasons to feel badly, and I should just suck it up. Does anyone feel like that? I look forward to my therapy sessions and being listened to, but I feel like "oh poor me, I'm depressed" but there is no good reason. Some of you may have seen that 20/20 program where they talked about which countries have the happiest and unhappiest people ... and a country like India, where they are desperately poor and don't know if their children will even live to the age of 5, they are remarkably happy people. There is no time for depression, bipolar, etc. when you're talking about basic survival. It sometimes seems that those of us from wealthy countries have too much time on our hands to microanalyze everything.