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I suffer from clinical depression as well as panic (or anxiety) attacks and have for almost twenty years. As my comic friend Ralphie May suggested; for me, it's Lexapro and Weed, with a weekly milligram of Xanax. My depression deepened when my Diverticulitis worsened 2011, and reached it's apex after my operation in 2013. I deal with it every day.
FWIW, be as gentle with yourself as possible. Enjoy the good days, and deal with the bad ones. If it gets worse seek help. Don't wait for the condition to get better. In my case it is still a daily struggle after twenty years. I was diagnosed when I was the same age you are, and over the past twenty years I became a middling stand up comic and a semi successful professional speaker. Own your issues, don't let them own you.
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To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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