I have not been active here in the last two weeks. I want to. But I have been going through some things and lately become depressed. I check here daily and look at the posts but not being active. I mainly played the games here nowadays to relive my childhood. Which makes me feel happy and not depressed. But enough about me how do you deal with depression?

i start laughing randomly when i am depresed you should try something like that or you can shout really load for 10 seconds and see how that works out or you can start singing your favorite song maybe ar a catchy song

I do that a lot actually right now I am too! I browse and listen to music all the time and it does help! Thanks for the insight!

Now I went through a EXTREMELY depressing time of my life, and how I got over it; I spent time on Vizzed. Here I made friends, posting rivals, layouts, and threads so people can help me through my problems. Somewhat like therapy only with no degree (WOW! I made no sense most likely!). And I can always help you, if you wanna chat, you can PM me, summon me (In the correct forum), or post a comment on your profile.

I have suffered through depression most of my life, and all of the websites told me to spend time with my friends. I don't really have any friends because I never felt like making the effort as a kid, I always saw myself as the best companion. What I found out, and yeah, this will surprise you, is that when I play the legend of Zelda, those bad feelings go away. I'm not saying play Zelda, I'm saying do what you enjoy the most. There is that one thing that will never be affected by depressions effects that cause you to not want to do anything, even the things you used to love to do. Do that thing, and if you don't have time for it, make time. I'm afraid its that simple. Yeah I have a degree in psychology, and most everybody said the friends and family thing, but I believe you should do that one thing that makes you happy in life, there literally has to be one.

(And this might sound a little dark, but if you're depression gets at all serious, than please tell a professional)

Personally I don't really deal with depression that well.... As in I haven't found something that has essentially stopped me from being the depressing, sarcastic, pessimistic person I am.... 

However the thing that I do enjoy that makes me forget about how crap the world is etc... Is chatting to people... I know some of the people who read this will have expected me to have put My little pony or muffins... But seriously nothing is better than having a meaningful conversation with someone that you like or even dislike... It makes you think about other things, It makes you laugh when the other person acts like an idiot or makes a funny comparison or joke... Plus it always helps to tell supportive people what's making you upset or annoyed..  Essentially the thing that makes me forget about all this stuff is people that take the time to talk to you... 

People can be amazing when they are not so focused on themselves and focus on others... 

P.S MUFFINS DO HELP A LOT TOO

I drink. Not recomended.

Normally people eat or drinks things like beer,ice cream and candy. me I shove my face in red velvet ice cream

I been dealing with depression myself for most of my life specially when my grandma slowly died before my sophomore year. Only things that helped me was drawing, and when I was unable to I would listen to artists like blutengel and evanescence. Anothering that helped was helping other people I found mostly on online rpg like adventure quest worlds and helped them deal with their own problems. Whole thing with friends wouldn't work for me because of what happened to me as a child. It really comes down to the individual themselves. Reason the art thing works for me is that I can express what ever I was feeling and when I get done with atleast one drawing, what i felt would have flowed out. Kind of weird but thats best way I can explain it is that I transfered what I felt from myself and into something else in a non harmful way, would have done writing as well but I have major writer's block and as for music, I have know clue on reasonings there since when depressed I listen to dark music which is sometimes disturbing as well.

I workout seriously it helps studies have shown it is just as effective as an antidepressant plus you get great abs! also being active socially and talking with people helps out alot.

One day at a time.

If I'm having a hard hit of depression, I try to do things I enjoy, to take my mind off of it.

Being around people I care about helps a lot to, there have been many times I have been feeling depressed about things, but my friends, girlfriend and family are always there to support me.

I have turned to drinking before, but that made me worse personally, so now I just try to think positive.

I usually deal with depression by sleeping and taking my mind off of it.  When I'm really, really depressed I try to think about the positive things and tell myself it's going to be all right.

When I feel like crap, and am just like "I'm going to die someday anyways, life is pointless, blah," I just think of everything that is going to happen in my life that hasn't happened yet. That makes me feel better, thinking about how much the future holds, like a wife, kids, a house, everything on my bucket list, etc.

Oh and besides drinking, benzodiazepines.  Don't mix these two, though. Unless you care about stuff like actual memories or common decency.

Othewise, works better than having an actual friend or actually talking to your wife or kids. About anything.

You have to know how to cheer yourself up, because there won't always be people there to do that for you.

-Write a list somewhere (like, on a file on your computer) and keep links of articles and videos from youtube that always make you smile or laugh.

-Talk to an old friend, or anyone who is empathetic.

-Chow down on the foods that you love.

-Maybe pull an all-nighter all by yourself, or with someone you live with, and play board games, build forts, watch tons of movies, and watch the sunrise. 

-Take a bath with tons of bubbles, or just however you like it.

-Buy something new, whether it's a new laptop, TV, or a video game, or some new blankets, just something..

Not sure if I've helped, but it was kind of fun making that list ^-^