Agree whole heartedly. I am actually trying to become a "mentor" for our local mental health organization but with my criminal background this may be an issue (loooong ago but still a stigma).
Gotdam pleased to meet you as well.

Thanks for the smile and interaction, yes?
I was there not so long ago and can definitively empathize with this.
Dark days befell me and saw no way out and "cocooned" myself and had to take a break from all things around me and online... all I was doing was spreading my sense of "doom" and negative feelings - which I felt unfair to others and destructive at best.
Although there were more than one causation for my mental state I waited it out in hopes that being in the valley of death would pass and would be lifted out eventually to see the day when I would rise again to ride the crest of a wave again.
There are cycles of our ups and downs (I get that) but working on that wavelength to keep it from being so drastic and less extreme came from working on past traumas (openly and honestly) and lowering my intake of my drug of choice (benzodiazepines - namely bromazolam).
So far so good. I feel more confident, helpful, tolerant and thankful of what I have in this life as opposed to basically "hating" the sun rising and living as though there was no point in it.
I do not have children but always wanted one or two. There are too many that have no parents (like me) that are either lost, cannot lead by a
decent example or just cannot be bothered to spend the time and effort to rear their youngins.
Some offspring - no matter how well they are reared - still become lost, alone and afraid.... This I attribute to societal "issues" and the lack of a promising future (our destruction of everything we touch). To look at the world through their eyes is quite daunting and terrifying to me.
My bad for the long drawn-out rant but you seem to have pulled it out of me so Imma blame you for it.

All my best,