Hey Dude. I just got out of a “partial hospital” for depression. When I went to go to it I freaked a little. WTF partial hospital. Turns out it wasn’t in the hospital at all. It was a building down the street from the hospital in an office. Basically every day from 8:30-3:30 we sat at tables facing each other and talked about certain depression type of topics. I was there longer than most..not because I was worse off but because my insurance paid for 20 days. I learned so much in how to cope with my depression (which I hated even admitting that I had…I have a male type of ego). Have you heard of dialectic behavior therapy? Most of our handouts were learning about this.
Anti-depressants are not the solve all problem. I am on them too. In fact I had learned that my depression had went back to year 2007 and I had been on anti-depressants since then for my anxiety attacks. Obviously it worked for the anxiety but not the depression.
See if there is a group through one of your hospitals that has a wellness group for depression. Most likely it is where they send the people that tried to commit suicide after they have been hospitalized. Some in my group were there from the hospital. Others of us were either referred by a doc or one lady came on her own. I thought that was pretty cool.
((hugs))