This article describes and compares two case studies in an attempt to delimit more precisely the experience of illness and recovery of two women suffering from depression as well as determining their learning needs and the dimensions of their quality of life which were most affected by their illness. One case study involved a woman who was hospitalized on a psychiatric ward, while the other was about a woman undergoing group therapy three times a week at a psychiatric day center. The verbatim report revealed fourteen themes distributed among three analysis units. In both women, the trigger for their depressive disorder gravitated around their employment and their financial difficulties.