Thank you for openly sharing your struggles. I have decades of chronic pain and it has resulted in long term depression. I wish everyone was as brave as you, to speak of what needs to be openly discussed. I know people who accept someone has a drinking problem. But they are ashamed to admit their daughter has depression. It is very sad to me. I believe if we bring mental struggles out into the light, into the open, it will begin to lose the stigma.
I am glad you found help for neuropathy. I have that in my feet too and it is hell on earth, for me. If I did not have lidocaine cream, I could not leave the house even to gather groceries or go to the doctor.