I've been having a very rough week

Hey all, ummm, I've been having an incredibly difficult week. For the past few years, I've been dealing with a very deep, and intermittent, depression. It strikes randomly and it affects my life on every level. Most days I can manage it and work past it on my own, but like I said before, this whole week has been an enormous wave of negativity. After speaking with someone very close to me, I decided to go ahead and get professional help, because nothing that I've done over these years has been to permanently squash this issue and I realized that my depression was affecting that person, too. To be honest, I don't know if I can really fix any of what this has caused, I can really only hope that it does, because I really do want this...Life is hard enough and I want to keep as many good things as I possibly can...