Anxiety and Depression

This has been a rough week mentally.  I have suffered  from Anxiety and  Mild Depression most of my adult life.  I really think almost everyone does at some point in life.  It is all in how you handle it. My personal issue, at this time, is that I feel I have no outlet.  I have no real stress relief.  I keep thinking that things will change, and I want them to, it is the getting to the change that is the hard part.  I almost feel as though I am isolated and alone.  I have been told that I am too nice and too giving.  I definitely do not give myself the credit I deserve for having been through all I have and made it, so far.   I am always trying to take my personal experiences and use them to try and help others.   I would love to go and do some sort of work, but with my condition, it is a little difficult.   I have lots of experience in many different fields, but finding an employer that would be sympathetic and understanding of my illness is proving to be quite a challenge.  Who wants to hire you for work when you have days that you can’t even leave the house, let alone go to work.  I am fully aware that I sound like someone who is making excuses for themself, but that is not the case.  If I were 100% able bodied, I would still be working full time.  I write because it is a bit of a stress relief to “let it out”.  Some people suffer in silence and in their own way.  They choose not to be in support groups or talk to a professional about their problem.  Why suffer in silence?  Why not join a support group so you can see that others are experiencing the same things you are?  What is the shame in talking to a professional?  Nothing other than a stigma that is placed on these things by others who think they are so perfect that they just don’t need that, or they sit in silence because they feel as though people will treat them differently.