Strategies for Overcoming Depression

Exercise for half an hour.

Do something that, that cleans or fixes or repairs or builds something

that you can

see.

Pray for half an hour and go do something meaningful for someone

else.

And then I tell them, "Once you've done those four things,

then go ahead, go sit on

your couch and be as depressed as you wanna be." And they always laugh

when I say

that because they know. Before even practicing it, they know,

"Well, if I do those

four things, I don't think I'm gonna be so depressed."

Exactly. You're not gonna be so depressed.

You're living for Christ, you're living for others,

and you're not so in your own

head.