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AGrinWithoutACat posted: I have chronic depression. I've been
diagnosed with bipolar and borderline personality disorder. I
used to cut... well, I guess I still do. It's been months since
my last time. Before that time, I had been clean from cutting
for over a year. Anyways, situationally, I have everything I
need and everything I could ever have wanted. I have absolutely
no reason not to be happy... It's hard trying to explain to my
family and friends that I can't control my emotions, and that my
depression isn't caused by a lack of anything or lack of trying
to get rid of it. I keep being told that happiness is a process,
it's something you have to work for, something you have to earn
almost. I don't know what to do. I'm on medication. I went to
therapy for 2 years and I finally ended up just telling them
what they wanted to hear in order for them to let me go. I was
wasting an hour every wee