Kim, my Hypnotherapist, and, I think, life coach, has incredible abilities. No, she hasn't stopped me smoking completely, yet, but has brought into my life an incredible optimism and positivity, which was never there before.
I no longer live in the dark times, which through time became a comfortable but familiar place to be. I now have an incredibly new outlook on life, and I'm posting up things in my future that I'm going to enjoy immensely! What a turnaround!
For those of us who have "enjoyed" depression in the past, there are dark times that can be revisited, but the diamonds in there can be rescued and put up into the positive future and present! We can all have a new beginning.
This wee lassie who has inspired me has a link here, but such folk can be found anywhere, I'm sure!
Only my opinion as a person who used to smoke, but not smoking can improve your outlook! Being able to breath deeply and get more oxygen into your brain is a great way to do that! ;-)
Of course never having faced depression as apparent as yours was, I know that my understanding of such things is only superficial. I come from a Scotch-Irish family.. they were all slightly depressed. Is it in the blood perhaps?