Not entirely sure if I’m ranting or asking for advice right now, but here goes: I’m bipolar 2 and currently in a depressive episode that I’d guess has lasted about a year. 

At this point I’m feeling hopeless and starting to question my diagnosis as I just can’t seem to find a way out of this pit. 

When I think of the times I’ve experienced hypomania, I feel like I’m in quicksand and looking back on the feeling of walking on air. I know it’s bad to want to be manic, but at this point I’m in so deep that I almost believe it would require that level of energy to get myself out.

Have any of you experienced a depressive episode that seems to go on forever? What got you out, if anything?