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Depression is not sitting alone in a dark room feeling hopeless and sad. People who struggle with depression go to work, watch movies or plays, and interact with people in their lives. The struggle with depression means you may do a lot of these activities without a sense of joy or meaning. As you live on autopilot mode, you may get through the day, but it feels like you are just going through the motions.
Work can be a source of stress for many reasons. First of all, it is a place where you spend a lot of time. Second, work offers a variety of other stressors. The people you work with can be a source of collegiality; they can also be a source of stress. The roles that you play can lead to stress: coworker, employee, director, manager, or boss.
If you struggle with the presence of anger in your life, you know the hurt and pain it can bring to you and to others. When you look at that hurt and pain, the most sensible response seems to be to exert some control over your anger. When you start to feel the anger rising, your mind tells you that this anger is dangerous.
We all enjoy watching things grow. There may be a wall or door in your house with marks and names and numbers by the marks. They are snapshots of your children, or yourself, at different ages. At some point in school, you probably brought home a Styrofoam cup with a seed buried in some dirt. There was the excitement of watching a tiny leaf emerge from the dirt and grow into a plant.
