Your health challenges are very real and affect your depression. The depression worsens the health as recovery time takes longer, it's a vicious cycle. People who are depressed do not bounce back as fast or sometimes at all. Traumatic events and pain are something that you have to deal with yourself, and those demons are very real. No one else will ever really understand, nor us their pain and demons.

Mental health is so very important to living not only happily but healthily. I was raised to stuff away the problems and ignore them, but I come from a different generation. Is it healthy? No. But it is what it is...

I hope you continue to improve and feel better and can keep that depression at bay. It certainly won't help your blood pressure!