Just an echo to all that's gone before and to those still struggling with the suffering...I was put on Fluoxetine (prozac) 8 years ago now (and about 10 years later than I should have!!) - it helped me a lot, though it took some time before I really knew this.
This time last year I was on 40mg a day.
Today I'm down to 20mg every 2 days and winding it down to the point where I'll be anti-depressant free...a point I'm really really looking forward to.

Life hasn't changed all that much, but the way I deal with it has. Prozac gave me a place to 'step back to' and allowed me the space to develop a different way of looking at things.

Something that occurs to me on a daily basis is that depression is depressingly common amongst the section of humanity that thinks about things. This suggests to me that while the problem ends up 'within' it possibly starts from living in a world that needs some serious readjustment.
People deal with this in different ways, but frankly? Depression seems a very very rational response to the way things are....

Good luck all on this.