That prozac nation sounds like a good book. I know nobody here, has probably gone through real depression.
@TomSea Look before you leap---the pool may be empty, and the headache on landing is murder.
I didn't get to read
Prozac Nation (RIP Ms. Wurtzel) but I've dealt with depression most of my life. And it wasn't until I came to live in Las Vegas that I finally got the right diagnosis for my condition, an anxiety disorder with a degree of clinical depression (I was mis-diagnosed as full-blown manic depressive long enough ago, and I'm pretty certain that a couple of the medications I was prescribed---for the record, Prozac wasn't one of them---probably screwed me and my chemistry up even more than I was already screwed up) and have since been on a very good program of vitamin therapy. My only regret is that I didn't get the right diagnosis far, far sooner, I might not have screwed up as much of my life as I did or hurt as many people I loved as I did. I've been in a better place the last twelve years than I'd ever been before as far as that goes
It's not easy to talk about. It never really has been. And I suspect that there are a few among us here who deal with one or another degree of depression, have done so for long enough, and simply choose not to discuss it on the forum even in those couple of outlets where we're encouraged to do so. We don't wear sandwich boards saying, "Hi! I'm a clinical depressive!" and we don't advertise our conditions otherwise, we live and deal with them each in our own ways. And for myself, though I'm sure anyone else here dealing with anything similar, I thank God for every day I live and for those who remain in my life.