how you cope up with depression?

Hi, I will go to play tennis or basketball ,perhaps go shopping or surf here if i fell upset!

when i feel sad and alone i would listen to music. haha, it relieves me from stress,sadness,emptiness and other undisirable feelings. its the only medicine that works for me. haha, i would just sing-a-long with my fave tune and walaaahh!! it would be gone.

When I start getting sad or worrying about something I get up and go somewhere where there are people who need help. Doing whatever you can for others will make you feel better. I sometimes will pick up a friend and we will go visit the hospital. There are a lot of babies that need someone to hold them even if for a little while. And elderly people who just want someone to talk to. It always makes a difference in how you feel to know that you are not alone in this world. Sometimes all it takes is a good book to read. Try reading to someone who can't read, like the blind or almost blind that can't read anymore. I have always been told sadness was a state of mind that can be changed by what we do.

There have been plenty of times in my life where I have felt down and depressed for different reasons. Sometimes I feel alone or just lonely. Sometimes I wish I had more friends and I feel bad for being hurt by others. I do pick myself up out of it and just be happy for what I have now. I have a beautiful family including my husband and my son. They make me happy and I like to think of them when I am down.

Nowadays I easily feel depressed with my problem at home and pressured from work, what I usually do is read good books and pray.

I had a problem when I was depressed for a while, people made me feel so stressed out and unhappy, and I would come home and pray and God would take my sadness away, and then the next day people would do it again, and I would come home and pray, and God would take it away again, even though God was taking away my sadness, the people still made me feel bad daily... so it took a little while (I think God didnt take me out of it completely at first so that I could experience it, and know what it is like, for my own "Education") but God helped me find my way out of the situations that made me feel bad, he took away my sadness...I mean I still feel bad once in a while like everyone, but its not a daily thing where I feel like my life is horrible. its just a ...right this hour I'm missing my dad so I am going to cry kinda thing. its not depression anymore :) I'm a happy person again now... Though last Sunday God decided it was time to uproot a new bad thing in me, this time its anger and hatred... yeah...NOT a fun one to go through XD lol I didn't realize anger and hatred had rooted itself in my heart... I'm glad God is helping me get rid of it.