I encourage you or anyone you may know that suffers with depression to check the items off the list on the way to recovery. With God's help, we are never alone on the journey. Thea Kellogg grew up with all of these, and yet she survived, until one day, forty years later her system shut down. She had become incapacitated and was told by her doctor that she was clinically depressed. At first she did not know where to turn or what to do.
Depression is a very personal thing.
It is more than just a bad day or a blue mood. And it is not an easy subject to talk about with people who have never experienced it. They don't understand, nor can they know what it feels like. Doing the tough stuff Kellogg chose to do the tough stuff. She chose then to live a life of peace instead of pain - at all costs.