How to not be depressed:
1. Help someone else: you may not be able to help yourself, but there is always someone else in your orbit you can help either through a breakup or a bad day. Listen, console, give advice.
2. Romanticize your life: coffee + morning walk (you must leave the house). There is joy in the mundane, you must find it.
3. Errands: there is substantial evidence that getting up and completing concrete tasks can reduce depressive symptoms
4. Walk: at LEAST 20 mins a day of sunlight + moving your body
5. Curate your playlist: I love rap music, but found that listening to aggressive rap in the morning didn’t help me as much as listening to happy music
6. Practice gratitude: always be thankful, always communicate it
7. Tell someone you love them
8. Get up and do something: Ruminating can be stalled by something as simple as getting up and walking to the kitchen.
9. Take a shower: the ultimate reset. When I’m upset about something I take a shower and have usually calmed down by the time I’m out.
*You cannot rely on anyone other than yourself for your own happiness. It is your responsibility. You can lean on others but it must come from within.