Punch with both fists.
Life is hard. It may be easy for some or so it seems, but I have found it to be hard. When you see other people doing things seemingly easily, it can be downright discouraging especially when you struggle with depression. I know what it is to feel that you have to fight to even get out of the mental hole you have dug for yourself. You make progress and then you go backward. You struggle to hang on. You get tired. You wonder what is the point? When you understand depression, you know how to make that forward progress stick. It takes fighting for your life. You have to be the rebel.
I call it punching with both fists at once. You can’t just punch one fist at a time. You need to punch with both at the same time. One fist is doing a different response to life stress depression. The second fist is to not take the easy way out and use your familiar tool of depression. When you punch with both , you get the knockout. You knock depression out. Then you have control and not depression.