Your message is lovely, but for most people with clinical deporession, they need far more than aphorisms. They need the help of a good psychiatrist to prescribe the right meds or get them right after a few experiments. They need a good therapist to help them live with the symptoms and develop tools to fight them besides your one suggestion - which by the way, is a good one - it just takes so much more.

Also needed, is a good educaiton about depression, about the meds available and their side effects. Some help you at the cost of weight gain. Some help you at the cost of putting you to sleep. Soime help you at the expense of taking away your sex drive. So, when you sit down with a doctor, you should be aware of all the side effects and help him or her choose what's best for your life. For a nun, losing her sex drive might be beneficial but for some, it would ruin their self-image UNLESS they knew they were treading six months for a relief form the depression and the long term effects are none.

Best of luck to you and whatever it takes is worth the effort. The only shortcuts ends up leaving you with l;onger term problems.

You can't climb a mountain by wishing yourself to the top. You have to take every step and pay every price but the reward is worth it.

The problem I have had when I was working in Memphis, TN was the fact that I had to convince myself to get up and go to work every day.

If I had a bad day at work the previous day, I would carry it with me to the next day. I would have to literally pull myself up out of bed and make myself get up, shower, and shave.

After breakfast, I would convince myself that I had to go to work so that the bills can get paid, etc., etc., etc.

So yes, forget yesterday! Learn from the mistakes of yesterday and live life better today than you did yesterday.