@jimhd About a month ago I started back on a low-dose anti-depressant. Two weeks ago I had my first appt with a new psychologist. In times past I had availed myself to both of those, but it has been a long time. Like @parus and you have said, the stigmas of truth-telling, of letting people know where you are at mental-health wise, shouldn't be met with negative, but so often they are. Each person has their own reality, and is working with ways to help them get through each day. I hate the way we are ostracized and the ways we are made to feel "less than".

Depression and anxiety at an older age can be caused by so many things. Loss of a spouse/family member/close friend. Changing health conditions. Uncertainty with financial or living situations. Changing neighborhoods around us. Isolation because of this pandemic or transportation concerns. Even retirement, which we all hear should be so wonderful, can be a source of depression, when our "reason for being" is gone, along with an income.

Shoulder to shoulder we stand together, supporting one another.
Ginger