hopelessness, despondency, severe depression have come and gone from my life many, many times .
sometimes so bad that i have admitted myself to the looney bin .
i know of people who got their lives back by good medical help . i too have had success with one out of several psych docs.
drugs can be the culprit . no matter prescribed or illicit these powerful chemicals, over time or immediately, have side effects that can tear one's emotions to smithereens . takes a good doc to figure out if that is the problem.