Saying shit like this makes me think you don't get it. You know what's even stupider than self pity? Being alive.
2) Why ride them out when you can end them right now?
3) When you're depressed, you don't 'enjoy' anything.
4) > there's just nothing.
Perfect. Where do I sign up?
Not trying to downplay your experience or anything, but your assessment of what depression is sounds an awful lot like what people who aren't depressed think depression is.
Not necessarily. Emotions are curios things and the part about riding them out helped me a lot. You can't end them right now. If you try to stop em or suppress em you'll only achieve the opposite. It's a bit like trying not to laugh when you are already laughing your heart out.
I think the better solution is to live trough them. You don't have to accept the feelings as something good but thinking of them as a sort of temporary injury that will heal if you let it works. If you catch a flu you take a few days of rest and it will be gone. You don't force it to end by walking around and 'being strong'. And it's even more so with things going on in your head.
Number 3 is something I can only do as a sort of preventative measure.
Saying shit like this makes me think you don't get it. You know what's even stupider than self pity? Being alive.
2) Why ride them out when you can end them right now?
3) When you're depressed, you don't 'enjoy' anything.
4) > there's just nothing.
Perfect. Where do I sign up?
Not trying to downplay your experience or anything, but your assessment of what depression is sounds an awful lot like what people who aren't depressed think depression is.