Thank you all for your replies. I will look at that other site. Thank you. I like the idea of the chat, as in talking real time to real people. I am lucky enough not to be suffering any physical ailments at all, and after reading so many stories on here I am thankful. This depression however is sucking life from me, and it all seems endlessly bleak. I want to live again, smile, laugh, cry even. I have been numb and indifferent for nearly a year. Nearly a year spent in bed literally ! Is there hope ? When I can't find it in me to even approach my doctor, it seems all hopeless and pointless.