Depression and Anxiety

I find the news hard to watch and to hear as do we all.

But clinical depression is not about feeling sad; it is about being ill with all the body systems slowed down. I am therefore nor sure that it is induced by sad information, although that cannot help.

I'm afraid I have had to stop reading the news in any sort of detail. I skim through most of the bad stuff because I just can't cope with anymore. So much has gone on in my life over the last few years, and I've sort of switched off!

Yes, I think I agree with pompa and grannylyn, but the constant background of bad news via the internet doesn't help.

Quite .

AS someone who has suffered with depression for many years, I can say that, for me, it is the small things closer to home that push me over the brink. Never World affairs.