New and Confused

I am new here and signed up because it seemed to be a place where I could write out my confusion and pain -- and get support.  If I'm wrong let me know.  I can also give support.  I just can't get out of my own quandry lately.

I am the strong one emotionally - in my family, in my marriage, in my life experiences.  But since the past summer I have been fighting depression.  I know that's what it is.  I haven't been to a shrink for a diagnosis.  But I am intelligent, empathic, intuitive - I just can't figure out how to heal this pain.  I don't see time as helping in this case.

It's such a long story and I don't have time to tell it right this minute.  But I need to find a place to tell it, because it is driving me crazy to not have someplace to share it.  The "funny" thing is that I take an anti-depressant for my fibromyalgia pain (works rather well; have had fibro over 40 yrs, this isn't from that) and I think it's that anti-depressant that's one of the things helping/preventing me from tipping into full-fledged depression.  Instead I am on a roller coaster of emotional states, the roller coaster from hell.

So if this is a place I can share, please let me know.  If not, I'll keep searching.  Thanks.