How do you know if you aren't depressed, if you've been depressed your whole lif

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*life? I think I have been depressed my whole life. I mean, I didn't cry all the time. But I slept a lot. Ate comfort foods n such. Then being in a bad marriage.. I deffinately knew what depression really was. It wasn't just sleeping a lot. It was easily frustrated, rage, crying, bad thoughts. But when most of those symptoms go away, and you are eating and sleeping still. How do you know if you are still depressed? You aren't really all that happy. What is normal? How happy are you supposed to be? How much energy are you supposed to have when you aren't depressed. What is your appetite like when you're not depressed. Will I always be depressed? or THINK I am depressed, when maybe I'm not? Is everyone depressed? All my meds to is help with rage. I no longer cry anymore. I'm not sure why. Maybe I've just had enough of whats going on that it no longer bothers me as much. But am I still depressed. How does one know if one is still depressed. Or if one has come out of it, and just doesn't know? Especially when one has struggled with this their whole life.