Another way of looking at depression

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Both endo and exo can be treated with the same modalities.

Or can they? If the circumstances don't change you can keep the symptoms in check by taking medication, which has all kinds of side effects, such as constantly feeling tired and the total absence of any libido.

OK, I didn't want to go there, but here's my life story and the probable reasons for why my depression got the better of me. I didn't have a single happy day in the last 16 years. In 2000 my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He died two years later. I cared for my mother, who was kind of an alcoholic and depressive herself for the next six years, which left hardly any time for my own needs. At the same time I had to keep up a job I hate, with daily abuse and strain to earn the necessary funds to keep us going. Fast forward to 2008. At the end of that year, my mother got terminally ill and died three months later. Just in time for the global crisis to hit, which caused me to lose everything I worked for in the previous decades. I lost my parental home on the way, and am living now in a tiny apartment. Ever since then I'm struggling to survive, and by that I mean that I don't even know where this months rent is supposed to come from. I'm talking about a measly 300 Euros here, which I don't have.

These are the exo reasons and the reason why I said I can't change anything about them. I'm 53, and by the standards of our beautiful world I'm already human garbage. Nobody is looking to offer someone my age a job.