That's easy enough to say but if you have real depression the best you can do is temporary distractions. It always comes back to "yeah, I don't want to do this anymore." It doesn't get better, you can makw it look different or try to ignore it. Maybe there are methods to make those things easier, but don't get the impression that depression is something necessarily fixable. Real depression that is. Imagine people saying "Your bipolar just needs some perspective! You may be schizo but have you tried meditation? PTSD? Mushrooms will clear that right up!" Because they do. And the sentiment is no different for those with real depression. I say real because I've had at least one psychedelic and sleep deprivation induced psychosis episode yet I don't go to my doctor telling her I'm crazy. It was a situational episode. If I said that stuff to a person with real mental health issues I'd hope they would roll their eyes and consider me an attention seeker were I to insinuate I have some clinical issue. It doesn't go away. You just learn to cope. The problem with depression being that having to cope makes it worse, like a crazy person only making themselves crazier by trying not to be crazy. So it's not as easy to say "make changes," not they won't help. It's just the crushing inevitability that is a depressed persons mind that will eventually make any progress as worthless as anything else. To be depressed you need to make yourself at home at square one. It's basically like playing Dark Souls with only the first bonfire.
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