Depression is scary

And then my mind progresses to "where am I going next with this stuff"

As personal advise, my problems started to be easier to fix when I cared less about the problems. I know it's hard to see, but I can't really help more. Sometimes it's something you have to do. Some other times it's waiting for a chance. But whatever it is, it always depends. And you'd have to be a fool to think a depression lasts a whole lifetime. It's just a dark time that helped you improve.

That's massively unhelpful and unfair. What do you do when you've done all that, and you still fight to get out of bed in the morning, struggle to go to work and school, and struggle to go places?

Just because things were easy for you to get through doesn't make them easy for others.

It wasn't easy for me. It took me around 2-3 years to get out. I simply found a way out, if you can call it that way. All I'm saying now is from past experience. I struggled like that for a good long time, until things suddendly started to be better. A bad time is not forever. Even if it goes for long.