Experience, strength, and hope is legitimate. I have learned to disregard anything that smacks of "advice" without backing of personal experience. Fortunately, this is a very old post and I hope she's past the acute phase of the problem. Can't say I've noticed her posting elsewhere on this board so maybe she hasn't come back.

It's true that helping other people will often clear a "bad mood," or "the blues," but that is generally not sufficient to clear clinical depression. At least it wasn't for me.

I read Dr. Phil and all the others back when I was in a place that sounds a lot like where she was when she posted and they didn't do a damn thing for me.

Who died and left you the judge of legitimate pain?