If it isn't too personal for me to ask, I'm curious how many people here have a rough time with depression in connection with FM and CFS. Of the people I know personally who have FM (maybe 7 or 8 people besides myself), it seems that most don't really have depression. For me, it's a cycle I seem to go through with every flareup. This week, I paid more attention to it than I had before, and I really saw the cycle. Sunday night and Monday, it rained pretty hard. Sunday night, Monday, and Tuesday, I was hurting. Tuesday, I went and stocked up on more of my favorites of the foods that have good anti-inflammatory ratings (tuna, spinach, cantaloupe, strawberries, almonds, avocado) and started making sure they were a good percentage of what I ate. By Wednesday, the physical pain was less, but Wednesday and Thursday, I was depressed and negative and in a place I don't like to go emotionally/mentally. Today I feel more neutral and a little more like myself.

If I had the choice, I'd take the physical pain over the depression. At least when I'm hurting physically, I still try to do things that need to be done, even if I can't always do as much as I want to do, but when I'm depressed, I just don't care, so I don't even bother.