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happends to everyone
your depression isn't about religion, it's about aging and the inevitibility of death. We all hit it square, and some get more depressed, but some use it as an inspiration to accomplish more in life.
Penn (of Penn and Teller) had a beautiful essay on NPR about why being atheist is so inspiring. I encourage people to goole it on the npr site. But he says knowing there's no afterlife makes him all the more driven to acheive things now, in his life. Rather than letting the no afterlife knowledge bring him down (is this all there is?), he lets it inspire him to accomplish more today because this is the only chance he'll have. Live life now before it's too late, cuz you're gonna die eventually and there's no afterlife.