I can definately relate to the losing ground experience.... My thoughts are that it isn't working either because you're not doing it right, or it isn't right for you. I'm reminded of the Wright Brothers and thier many unsuccessful attempts to build an airplane before they finally succeeded.

One thing I have to wonder is, are you treating the symptoms, or treating the cause? Flowers may cheer us after some heartbreak, but when the flowers have died, the heartbreak remains. Then we either need to buy more flowers or risk more pain in looking at the heartache. If we buy more flowers, it's just a matter of time before they die too.

Sometimes it's very hard to see the cause of depression because the symptoms are confusing and painful themselves. I used to feel socially forgotten. I was very depressed about it. I thought if I could just find friends, the depression would leave. Then I found that no matter what group of people I was around, the feelings were the same. My depression wasn't caused by lonliness, lonliness was a symptom. The true cause was a shortage of self-confidence and self-esteem. I wasn't invited because I wasn't any fun to be around. That hurt to recognize, but it was the truth I had to finally accept and work to change if I ever wanted the depression to go away.

Do you believe your depression is event, or medically caused?

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but rising every time we fall." Confucius