I don't intend this to be a sad post, in fact I hope someone agrees with what I'm saying and finds some comfort in it....basically I've been depressed for several years and have spent so much time trying to fix it. I was always coming up with "strategies" to cure my depression. Like, if I go outside X amount of times a day, if I go to therapy for X amount of years, if I take X amount of medication for X amount of time, my depression will be cured. Always trying to come up with a strategy, a method, a formula to cure it. 

None of these strategies ever worked. And that just made me more depressed than ever. I started to believe that there just was no cure. There was no strategy, I would be stuck with it forever. I always wanted to cure my depression with a formula, so I could spread the word about what I did. I wanted to be proud of myself, and tell other people what I did to cure it so nobody else would have to feel depressed like me. But nothing worked and everything just left me exactly as depressed as I'd always been. 

And now, I'm starting to think the real cure, is to accept that there's no cure and just trust the natural order of things. Just do what you want and stop feeling like you have to work super hard to cure your depression. I feel like things click into place when you just put depression aside for a bit...not ignoring it, but not feeding it or getting worked up about it, not trying to make tons of friends or putting yourself in uncomfortable situations trying to cure it either. Just letting it sit idle and taking life for what it is...just life, not a reflection of your depression. I feel like that's when things click into place....when you realize that there's no script or formula or predisposed genetics required to have a good life, and believing in such ideas will only set you back. 

I am interested to hear what people say about this.