Nonetheless, I suggest to you that beneath the experience of depression and the excruciating pain that accompanies it, there are yet deeper emotional currents. These roots must be located and pulled in order to heal a depression completely. Anger and depression are sisters. Where there is depression there is rage. That pain is the pain of the world not being the way that you want it to be.
Every depressed state is accompanied by a hormonal imbalance and excesses of neurotransmitters.
If you need assistance in beginning the process of dealing with your depression, there is no shame in addressing these imbalances chemically. They may give you the breathing space that you need to temporarily balance yourself. You can use this temporary space and temporary balance to begin the difficult work of excavating the emotional current that lies beneath your depression. This is the work that you were born to do. Until you do it you will not be able to move into the fuller potential that your life offers you.