Depression

I am hearing more and more about this subject, and having, most of my life a personality bordering on manic depressive I know the horrors, of the "Black Dogs"
Some things I have learned to keep them at bay!
1 Get out of the house and in to the open air, it always lightens the cloud, especially on a sunny day.

2 Sing in the shower, everyone else in the house will get depressed, you however, will be fine! Honest.

3 Remember, the past is the dead past, it is gone, you can't get it back, neither can it harm you, where the mind leads the body follows, if you will keep telling yourself. only good days from now on, your subconscious brain will fill the order.

Find an interest, prefereably one where you are invloved with other people, mine is music, without this outlet, I would be in the funny farm, in a padded room, taking meals through a straw.

If you can't think of an interest, check out the net for hobbies, pastimes, social groups, etc. It takes less effort than you think to head back into the light.
Cheers
Marius