I couldn't have done a lot of it without being able to talk to them daily

helps abit

Sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn't.

Took help from my friends only at a later stage, they had me engaged all the time. We did some volunteering together.

I am pretty open about my depression to friends and family and share both my successes and failures as well as listen to theirs.

I have good friends that listen and tell me what they think about things.

Some of my family are extreme Evangelical Christians, bordering on Christian Scientists. They do not believe in Psychiatry, psychology, or a lot of different proven scientific knowledge. They believe the Bible is literally the Truth and there is no room for interpretation. But, a lot of my family are also closed minded, miserable, bigoted and ignorant, so maybe that's the real problem at it's root...=/ Their beliefs really messed me up when I was struggling to recover from depression at age 16.

My husband helps me get through my harder days.

I have two girlfriends I talk to all the time about it, I know they are probably tired of hearing about my marriage problems. But it does give me other peoples ideas and how they see things.

All the support is great, and I know they are trying to help