Game Over?

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Sure feels like it - usually I shut down at times when recovery is easy... Just dropped the ball - blanked out during some of my final exams, memory stopped working for the others, shut everybody out of my life, stopped working, anti-depressants don't seem to work - had 4/5 of the core types now and the last one doesn't seem at all useful, sleepers dont work either - just spend all my time in a slump. Used to be able to focus on 'the next thing' coming to pull me out of the slump but I just don't have anything anymore...

Sorry to hear about your current state. I had a meltdown just the other day, I know how it can be
I suppose I'm not really good at saying the right thing to help people when they're feeling low. Just hang in there, and I hope this state of yours passes.

The walk suggestion is great. So much can be cured that way! In fact, in some places like Germany its called a constitutional and considered to have great health benefits.

Yes, walks are wonderful for helping our moods. I went through a low point that was so bad in the Spring of 2006, that I called off work for a couple days and laid on the couch pretty much unresponsive. What helped me was taking a walk with my mother to a craft store at the end of my parents' street. Though I still had a ways to go in recovering from that depression episode, it was the turning point. I went through another depression episode in the Summer of 2007 when I switched jobs at the school I teach at (switched from English to Gifted program). That time, I played a lot of Solitaire. But thinking back on my life, walks/hikes have usually made feel a lot better. I know that when we are depressed it is hard to get out and do something---but try to make yourself engage in something like a walk. It often helps.