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Hi. Before your next post, if I may, I'd like to comment. Remember, depression is a 100% legitimate illness. In that state, it's as if a dark, miserable cloud hangs over all your thoughts. You and all other sufferers need help, your entitled to and deserve that help, so seek it and you will...

Great post. A close relative of mine takes Sertraline, and we say that it's prevented their potential suicide. With the telling the boss bit, I'm glad it worked for you. For another perspective, I worked somewhere where the scheming owner seized upon any members of staff or busness partners...

Great post. I have friends who used the services of the Rock Clinic, as well taking suitable anti-depressants, who came out of the lowest ebbs stronger and happier. There’s no magic bullet. Many people would feel low to melancholy at times; meds and the talking therapies combined ameliorate...

Depression has always been very prevalent. In the 'good old days' (pre-computer screens), people internalised their pain and often took their own lives. I have great great uncles and aunts who did this via coal-gas ovens. Others tried to quell their sadness by becoming alcoholics. In the...

Spot on. A realisation that you are not alone, unusual or unlucky, that many others have been there and or still are, can be a comfort in itself. In addition to getting professional help.

Good luck in your road to feeling happier. Persistently involve your GP every step of the way (don’t be reticent in opening up), and follow their advice on meds. Please do not listen to one or two ‘sages’ who state do not take meds. Meds might be a godsend. My advice, if work issues can’t be...