It is true that depression is more common than people might want to believe. It is a feeling associated with your failures and uncertainties for the future. Usually it is a combination of negative feelings like sadness, loneliness anxiety, etc. It is indeed difficult and challenging to overcome and find ways solutions or ''cures'' to change that state.
Finding something that motivates you is the first step. Additionally the way you approach depression is fundamentally important as well. I would like to provide you with some tips that might be useful.
1. Stop blaming Depression as Something Bad
This is a very important step and approach in my opinion. Usually people have been conditioned either by society or their upbringings to judge depression as something undesired and bad. Thoughts like "Depression makes me weak and stupid" often make the feeling of depression even worse. Therefore, acknowledging that depression is a phase or a stage in your life, and that it doesn't have to last forever might give you a brighter outlook for your future and perhaps even a more hopeful attitude.
2. Situations are not always linked with your depression
Sometimes people think that depression is linked with a bad situation, or outcome, however that is not necessarily true. Your judgment and your thoughts that create those emotions ABOUT the situation are the culprits. Because there are some instances where the situation does not change at all and depression is not present. One reason this might happen is because the individual's thoughts are distracted and not focused on the situation...in those moments the feeling related to depression are not experienced or present, they are even forgotten. Understanding this can give some clarity about those ''little stories'' that we create, and as soon as we connect and play them in our minds, depression starts to inhibit our being. They last depending on you.
3. Do small and empowering changes at a time (Keep the bar LOW)
Empowering yourself and shifting those depressive emotions doesn't require a ridiculous amount of effort, but it does require action and personal responsibility. The trick is to keep the bar low and create CONSISTENCY first in your day to day changes and goal, whether it is working out and creating a fitness routine or regimen, changing your diet, or spending time to develop your preferred skills, practicing gratitude etc. Start of with easy and achievable goals that you can get used to first....the more you do something the more motivated you'll become in the long run to do and achieve more, creating that snowball effect.
4. Cherish and acknowledge the hard times depression creates
This sounds contradictory to what most people try to achieve, however I have found some truth to it. Depression challenges your comfort zone and it gives you the opportunity to strengthen your courage. Cherishing the small changes that you achieve in your life and the courage necessary to do so, and the exhibition of it can definitely prove useful, because despite all the crap and conditions, you still move forward.
5. Minimize or Eliminate people who try keep you Down and Depressed
This is key. Finding a community, reading up success stories about other people with similar issues, and connecting with genuine people who empower you, are quite important decisions.
There are a number of ways to tackle depression, and much more can be said of course. Many of those are connected to your mental state of being, and what you choose to believe in and do.
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