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[quote=Anonymous]For about three or six months, I wonder if I have started suffering from depression. But I dont feel sad, so I am not sure?

I am in my mid-forties. I have a C-level job, which has had increasing responsibilities and longer and longer required work hours for the past few years. Now I work way too many hours and I am exhausted. The pay is really high, and I can't afford to quit because I have college bills to pay and many years of medical bills that have mounted. We do not live an extravagant life.

I have three older kids (2 in college and one in high school).  My middle kid has a chronic illness which is incredibly stressful (and has been for the past 12 years).

I feel like I wake up, work like mad, come home and do it all again. In between, I am cleaning the house and dealing with kid stuff, mostly my ill child.

I am not sad- I just feel worn out. SO worn out. I feel like, numb...exhausted and just numb. I feel like a zombie, and I noticed that at home, I barely talk...I just sort of...exist.

At night, I have trouble sleeping. I fall asleep, but I wake up at 2, 3, 4 am, worrying about my kid and running through work things that have to be done or work problems that need to be solved.

My marriage is not in a horrible place, but again, I feel like numb toward it as well.

Is this what depression feels like? Or am I just tired?

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