Hi ther, don't worry girl... I am an escort with depression, couldn't go out to face the crowd, couldn't even turn on the tv, just go to the loo and maybe eat something that friends will bring.. and on top of that I had to work to survive. Previous times that depression had hit me again (because it comes and goes) my GP put me on prozak (antidepressives) and stayed there for 3 years. I was functioning, working, eating, sleeping. But I had no feelings, I couldn't get happy or sad, or even cry - I couldn't produce tears. And when I realise I lost 3 years of my life being a zombie, achieving nothing but surviving, no friends, no memories, no experiences, I regret I didn't fight it the natural way, by councelling or even bette having supportive friends who they understand you and pick you up when you're down and drag you out of your duvet to go for a drink or a movie...These things help. Talking. And my best suggestion I have to you, is try yoga. Different classes of yoga until you find the one you like with a teacher you like. I am telling you...you'll have a break through and you'll give a good cry sometime in the middle of the practice, but this is totally natural because the nature of yoga is to connect the body with the spirit...the thing us working girls have disassociate in order to do this job. Don't get me wrong, I love my job now! And yoga help me to fingd myself and be happy on my own, and the depression is totally out of site. Of course there is times I can feel the illness creeping in, and then I'll take my ass off the bed and grap the matt and off to the studio. Yoga and meditation change my life - please try it, don't go to pills. I suggest The Life Centre in Notting Hill and Triyoga in Chalk farm, they are the best.
Try have happy thoughts - or start daydreaming nice things for your future, that helps. When you catch your mind going down in negative thoughts, switch the thought with a pleasant one - or stop thinking at once!
I hope you 'll find these helpful. Hold on there girl. The world is a beautiful place and you are a beautiful person. x