Thanks for the kind words and your own story. Its interesting to hear you talk about "slowly slipped into a sort of 'fog.'". At times that feeling really resonates with how I'm feeling. Perhaps in the future I'll experience the "fog lift over me". For now though turning the corner was yesterday and although I feel like things have got worse I can also see thinning of that "fog". I think I made a mistake waiting so long to take action.

"Don't stress about any one thing, and make sure you are treating others well (by taking care of yourself)."

I'll keep that one close.

p.s I've registered and spoken to my GP and will be taking counselling as soon as I can.