Depression Coping Mechanisms

• Be patient.  Things will change if you let them.  External factors will change with time, they always do and they will now.
• Intellectualize your dark thoughts and feelings.  Think about what you are feeling through a cold, objective lens.
• Divert your mind away from yourself.

This represents my personal top three coping mechanisms for the recurring depression that has been a part of the ebb and flow of my life for the last 35 years or so.  There are many specific tools that fall into these three categories.  They all work together to get through periods of darkness.