Loneliness v depression v ordinary sadness

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I will try to keep this brief.

Basically, a few years ago my exH ended our marriage to be with someone else and it was an extremely traumatic time. It was a shock, I was left with a small baby and it also dragged on for about 18 months because he hinted that he may come back. It was horrible and I felt my life was over.

Looking back now I think I went through a stage of depression and anxiety for a while. Nonetheless I always soldiered on - I had a baby to look after and a job.

Fast forward to now and most of the time I am ok. I have happy moments doing things with my dd and have things to look forward to.
BUT at least a few times a week I do have moments of despair/sadness - and have these waves of feeling how crap life is, how horrible my life has turned out,how lonely my life is. Often things on television will make me cry.

Sometimes I do wonder whether I am depressed.

What are your experiences of feeling like that?

Hi I'm not in the same position as you but do have experience with depression and anxiety.
In my case when I've had it - it's taken away my enjoyment of anything. So things that I normally love doing become meaningless and everything is just very difficult.
Whether you have depression or not you might find it helpful to look at doing some things to try and help you cope with those negative thoughts when you get them. CBT is useful and there's a good book I'm reading at the moment called 'The Compassionate Mind' by Paul Gilbert which has some useful exercises in it. (A few people on here recommended it.)