Depression?

[xerocalibur]

Hey DG members...

I know I'm a newbie still, and I do not hang around the boards too much... I'm going to try and remedy that. However, I do currently feel as though I'm going through a bit of a depression...

To start, I have been out of school for about a year, and have not been able to find full-time work, either inside or outside my career field. My savings are dripping out of my bank accounts as the days tick by, and though I'm lucky enough to have a good relationship with my parents (who are letting me stay with them for awhile), things are getting rocky in the house as they too are frustrated with me being jobless.

On top of that, my relationship of two years ended in early August, and I haven't had so much as a significant date since then. I really do not know how to meet people, especially people in Port Huron... anybody I've ever met and dated has been, for the most part, someone my group of friends casually knew... or I met them on the internet. Not to mention, anybody I hung around with in Port Huron ages ago, before college, is now gone, or dead. So I find myself, day in, day out, being alone and lonesome. I don't even think I want a relationship, though it would be nice; I just want something as simple as somebody to go get coffee with, or see a movie with. I don't even have that. I have nobody I can chat with about life or stupid small things, aimlessly.

Finally, I think I suffer from SAD, or Seasonal Affective Disorder -- have to love the guys who make these acronyms -- and it's just now getting grey enough outside on a daily basis where it's bringing me down further.

So I pose the question to all of you... are you currently down? What do you do to get your mind off of it? Anybody want to chat?

[torn asunder]

we've got another thread on just this topic, here!