" 'A symptom of the bad times is that you think that they will never abate. You convince yourself that you are doomed forever to a state of half-life. You awake to a sighing gloom and an inordinate effort of will is required to leave your bed. You know that you should get up to arrest the feeling of despair, but the listlessness which is a characteristic of the condition holds you there, gazing upwards in …showed first 75 words of 1856 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1856 total…making bright and fruitful all the barren spots of earth. In facing odds and mastering them and rising from defeat, And making true what once was false, and what was bitter, sweet. For only he knows perfectly joy whose little bit of soil Is richer ground than what it was when he began to toil." -(Anonymous recovered depression victim) (Author, Motivational) As you can see there is hope and there are better times ahead.