I want to leave this anonymously but I am a fairly active member here.  My depression which I always have is really bad right now.  Wanted to ask my brothers and sisters for prayers

I want to leave this anonymously but I am a fairly active member here.  My depression which I always have is really bad right now.  Wanted to ask my brothers and sisters for prayers

Know that I am praying for you.

Look into hypothyroidism. Many Americans need thyroid supplementation due to a deficiency of iodine in diet and soil.
If you hands or feet are cold, if you come down with the flu or cold often, or if your get up and go has got up and left,
those could be signs of low thyroid. Doctors hesitate to prescribe natural thyroid from pork or beef thyroid because
the pharmaceutical grade is pushed. Synthetic thyroid can have side effects that make you depressed.
We use https://www.thyroidsupplements.com/ because our doctors have been hassling with us.

Also check your blood levels for B12 and iron deficiency. B12 is available in pill form. Check Jarrow.
https://www.iherb.com/pr/Jarrow-Formulas/71831

Thyroid, B12, and icon deficiency are common problems often misdiagnosed as depression.

Also check to see if you have symptoms of LYME disease as that can affect your mental health
especially when the spirochetes enter your liver or brain.

Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence.

Having suffered from depression for the past 30 years and counting...I began to realise that fear of depression itself was at the root of it all.  I began using the day positively by praying the Rosary every hour of the day for the Holy Souls in Purgatory.   As I prayed I KNEW the souls were being aided.  I knew it with the certainty of faith.  I had no faith in my own prayer (if you understand what I mean - because one feels that God has stopped loving one - which is what depression IS).  The sense of being abandoned by God is exploited by the Enemy and distorted - because God is actually very close to us during those times.   Unable to put my faith in my own prayer I put it in the Prayer of the Church.  When the Church gives us prayers to say they always work - so you will be saving souls in Purgatory.  The fear began to lift as I had a real purpose in life that continues to this day.   The episodes have decreased considerably  and if they re-surface from time to time I pray the Rosary again for the Holy Souls in Purgatory.  The depression stops you from taking the credit because it is only by knowing it is the Prayer of the Church - of the suffering Christ - that is releasing souls from Purgatory. I am not afraid of it any more because the devil does not like helping you pray for the Holy Souls, and that makes me happy.