This has long been a difficult issue for me to sort out in my mind. At any given time, am I clinically depressed APART from the MS? Am I depressed BECAUSE of the MS? Is it the dreaded PMS? Or, am I just situationally depressed, if there is such a term, just as anyone is occasionally?

I often hear the expression "so and so struggles with depression". How very apt. It's just like wrestling a physical thing sometimes.