Norm,
I've mostly kept out of the recent conversations on your life--I didn't feel I had much to add in terms of counsel, never having been diagnosed with depression et al. I've spent some time being poor ($75 a month for a while), but never without hope.
I see now I should have at least added my voice to those saying "hang in there". I'm *awfully* glad to hear you're still with us--you have a unique ability to see the good in people, and I appreciate your humility and sense of fairness in a world of the self-important and unjust. So:
Hang in there. You are worth the effort.
T.S.