I've struggled with clinical depression my whole life. I've tried self-medication (both legal and il-), and the talking cure, in that order; why I'm leery of prescription depression meds I couldn't say, except that I just kind of am.

However, one day all unbidden the insight came to me: "Happiness and unhappiness are choices. We can only control our circumstances to a very slight extent; our reaction to them, however, is entirely within our control." I've been much happier and productive since, although still pretty much a down-in-the-head kind of guy. Now, however, whenever I feel the damp hand of my disease pressing down on my brain, I say to myself, "Aaah, you can't fool me, you're just a disease." It's actually quite similar to my approach to allergies, which I'll tell anybody about who asks. Anyway, works for me.

I'm one of those depressed people who folks would probably be surprised to learn I'm depressed, I guess. I think that's about par for the course, actually. I'll give the Prager and Champion things a shot.