Where have I gone?

The last few years have been nothing less than a roller coaster ride. And most of it was hidden, a secret. Disguised behind smiles and outward picture of "I'm fine, thank you." It's somewhat hard for me to sit and pour this out, yet also freeing and therapeutic at the same time. What is it? Something that no one knew for a few years, and then only my husband for the last 4 months or so. I have a mood disorder, depression, anxiety. It started simple enough. The birth of two children, life, staying home at first and then going back to work....it all happened. It was life. It IS life. Stress, fun times, stress, hard times, stress fun times. It's normal, it's life. Just a day here and there of feeling blue. Then those days became closer together. My already embedded, but not bad anxieties about various things, began to become stronger. I never really liked, for example, other people except mysel...