You do have a slight advantage already.
At least you can point to reasons for being depressed. The things you mention would get anybody down.

Time will help you deal with the first one, and all work is bollocks, so, er, maybe you're fucked on that one, but there's always weekends!

Anyway, point is, it'll get better.
(username failed moderation, Wed 20 Mar 2013, 8:41, 1 reply)

Wise words
and very true. It will get better, and reading the responses from fellow b3tans has plucked me up immensely. The advice has been on the whole good and uplifting. There are many factors that can contribute to depression, or put you in it deeper, like bad weather or shitty workmates, piles of washing, unpaid bills, shiftlessness, self-pitying, that sort of stuff.

I can only say that this general response has lifted me quite a lot and would like to thank who replied, even the less earnest ones, who provided some comic relief.

It's a humbling thing when people you have never met, and perhaps never will, extend pure good will into cyberspace.

Many, many thanks for your time and kindness, I will prove that your gestures were worthwhile. You guys are inspirational.

Edit: time for gym!
(roysin, Wed 20 Mar 2013, 10:26, closed)

Just don't underestimate the benefits of masturbation, ok?
( Ken Oath, Wed 20 Mar 2013, 10:37, closed)

Although perhaps not in the gym, the staff might get upset

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 20 Mar 2013, 10:44, closed)