Do You Constantly Suffer from the Blues?! How do you pick yourself up?

I used to struggle with this myself at one time Andrew and still have the occasional bleak episode to be honest. Thankfully though these bleak periods are far and few between these days! I too have also sought counselling in the past and it did help me to a point I guess but mostly from the aspect of providing me a means to release my thoughts on someone unbiased for once! I am not a user of self-help books or tapes anymore but I was at one stage. The book that does play a major role in my life though is "The Secret" and I do try to embrace a number of the mindsets covered in this. The main challenge for me was always breaking the bad habits. Not physical habits, but mental ones. After long periods of depression and sadness we tend to be all consumed by negativity and pessimism. It becomes like a cancer and ravages our entire way of life. I consistently make a conscientious effort these days to stop myself whenever I fell negativity creeping into my thoughts or my actions. I use visualization a lot as well. At first this was ridiculously difficult because old habits and old mindsets are very hard to break! But thankfully over time I am starting to find it easier and easier to think positively and that I have a "silver lining" attitude to things that before would have devastated me. It is an ongoing journey and I am getting better every day! Best of luck with your own journey mate! Whatever doesn't kill us only make us stronger right? ANd for yet another quote.... We are far more potential than we are actuality! Our biggest challenger has always come from within and the very fact that an issue has been acknowledged in the first place and has been faced head on means the future has a better than average chance of being bright indeed!