I’m continuing on this path—still seeing the psychiatrist, still taking the antidepressant.

The antidepressant seems to have made the more noticeable difference. Time was that when I started to feel bad about something, my emotions would take a steep slide into gloom and doom. Nowadays I don’t seem to sink into those really low lows often at all.

There’s still work to do. I’m still working on some discomfort with my psychiatrist, but that may just be due to my own reluctance to open up in general. I think it’s improving.

My girlfriend has been very encouraging and says she can tell I’ve gotten significantly better. It’s good to have an external reference like that.