dear Maree, welcome to the site.
As Mary has said depression has no regard of who you are, where you are or where you stand in the community, it will hit anyone, any time and anywhere.
One problem that we can have is that we can be in denial, either unaware that we have depression or believe that we will feel better tomorrow or perhaps we can overcome all of this by ourselves, but it's really impossible, because we can't, and it only sparks something inside us that makes us realise that we actually do have depression, but along the way we may have up set our friends in the process.
We don't mean to do this and it's not our fault, but it's what this illness does to us, and eventually it becomes too late, because we lose them.
'Looking for attention' is a way out for your family to say, they don't know how to handle depression or at least understand what it does to someone.
I know that you are trying to get an appropriate time to see your GP, but I just wonder if want to try someone closer to where you work, as I was thinking if you decide you could click under 'get support' at the top of the page where there is a list of doctors who are aligned to BB and specially deal with depression issues, so there maybe one that has a free appointment, because the sooner the better for your own sake. L Geoff. x
