Reply #35: It is funny but having my kids really have taught me to see some good in life.

[Jennicut]

I suffered from depression for years, have been on meds for it for 10 years since I was in college. For me, I must think there is something to look forward to in life, some kind of hope or I easily slip back into depressive episodes even with the meds.

I am also a type 1 diabetic and this can easily lead to being depressed. There are just some days when I DON'T feel like injecting myself with insulin 5 times a day and checking my blood sugar just as many times.

However, the one thing that keeps me going is the simple pleasure I get from seeing my 5 and 6 year old daughters being happy. They are the future as well, all children are. If they can be taught to care about the world and the injustices in it as much as I do then that is two less ignorant people in the United States. So I keep coming to DU, I keep caring about what will happen in our world. It is a balance, of caring about what will happen and not living in a false sense of everything-is-fine but not being so depressed and overwhelmed by it that you stop caring.