About to give up

    I have lost  count of how many times I have started this journal entry.  My words get bogged down in my mind and I end up deleting it before I get further than a paragraph.  We'll see how things progress this time.
     I feel like I have a storm waging my chest.  I don't know what I am, or who I am.
     I think there will be another suicide attempt in my future.  After 40+ years I am so tired of living with this depression.  I don't know if it is worth it to continue with therapy.  I feel like I'm not getting anywhere, because I get bogged down in my thoughts and feelings.
     I was feeling not too badly earlier this week until I went over to visit a friend's mom because I was concerned about her as her neighbour was giving her a hard time.  I should have listened to my gut and stayed home.  Criticism and judgement of things that were none of her business.  There was a part of me that wanted to scream at her and tell her that it was none of her damn business, but I certainly wasn't going to yell at an 81-year-old women.  I found myself trying to explain to her, to answer her questions.  The entire time I was asking myself why I wasn't getting up out of the chair, bidding her a good day and walking home.  But like a fool I stayed, once again letting others thoughts and opinions weigh heavy on me.
      When will I learn that so long as I am okay with where things are in my heart that it doesn't matter a wit what others think??
      I am giving up on me again.  I'm having a difficult enough time rebounding from the depression and suicide attempt.  I don't want to do this any more.  If I have one more person who has never experienced this degree of depression tell me that it is my choice to be happy I think I'm going to scream.
      I've been told by countless medical professionals that I have amazing insight in to my illness, and that I'm very lucky.  I don't feel like I have insight.  Maybe I come across as talking a good game, but if I have such amazing insight why are my heart and soul not at peace?
      I am getting angry and upset just typing this.  Fuck it!!