Depression is a serious illness and I hope you're getting professional help. It can be overcome, thankfully, either with medication, psychotherapy or both. What UW said sounds great and may work for a few, but most of us need a more structured way of changing thought patterns. I highly recommend CBT - not cock and ball torture! but Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. They have some amazing tools for depression and it's a short-term therapy, not years of analysis. If you don't want to wait even for that, or don't have the energy to invest in CBT, you may want to go for those nice little pills to get the initial boost. Prozac and co. can literally be a lifesaver. The new versions have very few side effects and once you find the right one for you, there are none. Why suffer for too long? 2-3 weeks on SSRI and life will look good again. CBT does the same thing, only it can take 2-3 months to reach the same point.
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