chronic pain=depresson--Help!

I have chonic pain and it driving me in to a deep depression. The pain is so severe that i have been in ER 4 time in the last 2 weeks. I know that my condition I will always have pain, yet I want the pain to go away. I have use a varitey of skills. (distraction, minefulness, playing my voila, doing crafts) yet the pain so so bad that i keep focusing back on that. Today I feel that i walking thourgh a puddle of molasses due to the depression. Does anyone have any suggestion. I despritly need them at this time as a fear a mental insitution is near. I dont want to be there again. Thank all

pain and mental illness suck. we get you. it is trial and error for us all with our management. i think i seen you post on the chronic pain forum; my memory is whack, but it is a great forum for pain related. i have sublaxed shoulders, arthritis, slipped disk. yeah and a whole hoard of conditions. bugger. keep asking questions, keep trying. healing thoughts.