Hi Ada and Zena,

I used to not ever be depressed, but then so many depressing things happened... it was so stressful for SO MANY YEARS...

I think stressful things wear us out.

What happened for me that was a lifesaver (ha) is that when I tried to kill myself in 1997, they did a B12 test and found I had "profound" anemia... b12 deficiency.

But they failed to do much about it (I was taken out of the hospital and put in jail for weeds in my yard.)

But after awhile I got B12 replacement therapy, and after I had a lot of B12 replacement the feeling of depression was replaced by a lot more hopeful thinking.

So what I think now... is that for me the depression was related to how bad my memory became... I couldn't remember any good times, just the stressful ones.

If someone is having depression and has dealt with a lot of stress, I would really wish for them to try vitamin b12... quite a lot of it. A small amount wasn't very helpful to me... it was after I saw a neurologist and he said I should take more when I was under stress, and I did, that I began to have some real improvement.

Now I'm very seldom depressed. Court stuff can make me depressed, because the judges sometimes seem so corrupt...

But that's a long story.