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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who has dealt with clinical depression my whole life this is what I learned.

1) get out into nature
2) get a moderate amount of movement
3) don't drink
4) make a conscious decision to think and maybe write down all things that ARE going well in your life. 
5) [b]know that no matter how bad you're feeling right now, it will end and things will get better.[/b]
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NP, but this feels like pablum to me.  How do you know things will get better?  They could just as easily get worse.  I heard a comedian recently joke that his life on a steady downslide, so every day you see him, he can truthfully say that he is having the worst day of his life.  
I find the DBT approach to be more helpful.  Life can be crappy AND there can be beautiful things worth living for.  Both things can be true at once.  
I think the other four suggestions are good.  I would add:
(1) add music to your life.  Good, upbeat music.  Having a soundtrack to your life really helps keep your mood up.
(2) add humor to your life.  I've basically eliminated a lot of TV, movies, literature, because I will no longer read or watch anything depressing.  I only read or watch funny or uplifting stories.  It's not that I don't think those other things are "good" -- they are probably better than what I'm consuming.  But I'm just too sensitive to negative stuff.  I need to surround myself with laughter, which is, as they say, the best medicine.  (It really does help.)
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What I meant to say that depression seems to be cyclical.  So objectively things may not get better (though that's rare, and in the case of this pandemic it most certainly will get better), but the depression will eventually lift.  That might mean starting medication or going to therapy or both to get there, but eventually it does get better.  [/quote]

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