I was thinking that I would like to post this in hope it will help anyone out there who might have the same problem.
After leaving the WTS, one of the most difficult things I've had to get over was depression and anxiety. For many years before and after I left the WTS I would fall into terrible depressions or experience terrible anxiety about.... whatever. You name it and I could become seriously anxious about it to the point of being paralyzed and unable to address the situation. This affected my work, relationships, friendships and my ability to just live life.
It took me a long time to realize it, but when I was down with depression or anxiety I would be in a state of mind in which I was thinking that things would *always* be that bad. I would *always* feel that bad and I could not see any future time in which I would not be feeling that bad. Despair would set in.
It took a long time for me to figure this out: Just because things might be bad does not mean they will remain bad forever. Things change. Things always get better. Get through whatever the problem is and things will get better.
Even now, from time to time, such as when things are hard at work, I will find myself thinking like that. I'll remind myself that troubles pass and things do get better. Things always get better.