Some things I learned about depression

As sent to a friend going through it now

Depression is a cyclical problem.. you feel terrible and unmotivated because you’re unsatisfied with where you’re at... something happens in your brain to go haywire with chemicals that make you feel even worse...
Thus you feel even more terrible and more unmotivated because you haven’t been motivated to do anything

You hence get stuck in this cycle for a long time.. therefore creating habit of inaction, stagnation, and selfdoubt

Even if you have drugs to help with the chemicals... you still are left with a habit of not motivating yourself to do anything, and with a habit of thinking too negatively or just overthinking

The best way I found to help after over a decade of chronic depression, is to create a habit of action

Gotta do something different... gotta create the habit of doing something ie writing or podcasting or traveling or whatever...

If you stay depressed for too long, you start thinking that eating putrid stuff is the only thing you deserve to eat

Gotta treat yourself with the good sht to realize that you deserve and can do more

Create some stuff and keep doing it. Publish it. Consistently. So when get out of your depression, you have some great work + great habits