hello Floz, thank you for deciding to post your comment and can I welcome you, it's great to talk with you.
Being a nurse won't stop you from having depression, sure you give all the patients helpful advice but you're not including your own feelings, remember you're still human, and working shift work puts another stress on how you are feeling so you can't be immune.
Most people we know are acquaintances, there maybe just a couple of people who we can call friends and these may include family members, but if any of these acquaintances don't want to meet up with you, don't feel as though you're not wanted.
Instead, go and enjoy something that you have always wanted to do, you will meet new people along the way.
Someone in the medical profession, like yourself, being a nurse, who incidentally help an enormous amount of people doesn't mean that you shouldn't be talking with your own doctor, whether it's someone at work or elsewhere is what you need to decide on, but what you should be doing.
Don't make the mistake of feeling that it will go away by itself, by being a nurse, depression can happen to anyone. Geoff.
