It sounds dumb but I cope with my depression by comparing myself to others and their accomplishments. I’ll look at someones profile, find something spectacular they did in their career, then I’ll proceed to give myself reasons to believe why they’re inherently better than me. For example, I’ll tell myself, “Oh, that person got a computer science degree? Well, it was probably easy for them since they have no social life”, or the classic “it was easier for him because they’re a man”. A woman in STEM on LinkedIn? They probably went to a really good college prep high school, or had some sort of disposition making them more likely to succeed. 

For some context — I am a STEM dropout. It was very complicated and triggered a lot of depression. Now I want to kill myself because my future looks bleak with an useless humanities degree where I’ll always make less money than my STEM peers.