Chronic disease most certainly causes depression and PTSD. It's not an easy thing to manage either. I've seen people just plain give up and choose to die rather than fight. Guess what happens, they literally do die because they don't fight to keep on going. You have to have hope to keep going, and a belief in something. Personally I do believe in God and an afterlife, finding hope might be hard otherwise.
I know you've been through a lot, and I'm glad you're pushing on ahead. Keep that faith alive!
I know that I'm not even depending on my strength, because I have no strength on my own, but God keeps me going. The Bible says there's going to be suffering, but we'd find grace to survive it..
I haven't been to the hospital in a while, and that's because of the combination of many things, but I'll eventually have to go when I get cash to do so.
Thanks for the kind words always. I hope you're doing better, at least with the COVID?