Originally Posted by
captainkolak
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This a hundred times. If you are clinically depressed many of the things mentioned in this thread (like a cute girl) won't help. My personal advice from experience is not to analyze yourself on the inside, but rather encourage a "just do it" mentality. Don't try and analyze yourself in the sense of thinking why you are depressed, what you have to live for, or even why you should try not to be depressed. Those are all processes that will likely just lock you inside even more. Just try and change your attitude, try and be someone else (like James Bond :) ). Look in a mirror for 5 minutes and pump yourself up. Try to get your spirits up, even if only slightly and fleetingly. This won't cure clinical depression, but it might give you spurts of energy and motivation which might be enough for you to seek help/prevent self damaging actions/etc. Otherwise this technique is helpful because it directs your mental energies outward, you realize that you CAN succeed, that you CAN do X or Y. And unlike the person that becomes deeper and deeper entrenched in their own self-misery, the person trying to change their attitude is more likely to succeed :)
Source:
Ex-drug addict