Isn't designed to make the depression go away; something we both already know. It's designed to help us maintain a modicum of control when we are depressed or when we (in a general sense, but personal for me) cycle to the other extreme. The longer we live, the better we cope. And remember that your brain is slowly helping integrate memories that were once too traumatic to recall. Flashbacks, as difficult and even painful as they can be, are evidence that things are improving. Things are LESS threatening and so become introduced into your present. (Mine as well).

We don't stop being sad or scared or hurt, but rather become more able to handle the sadness, fear, and pain. You're doing better today than yesterday, of course, but if you look back to even a few years ago, you'll know you're so much stronger and healthier. It's that frustration that we all feel when we're not completely healed, since we are so close to the pain that we forget healing isn't an event but instead a process.

I added this in response to a post on Facebook regarding Madeline L'Engle, and it really suits us both and everybody else for that matter.

"When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable."

God Bless, sweetheart!