Focus on the things for which one ought to be grateful.

For example: About 15years ago after leaving my LAST wife with the car, house and everything else of material value as a small price for sanity and freedom, I had to ride busses for a few months. As one might imagine, it only added to the discomfort level of freedom's price.

Sometimes the bus would be off schedule or late. On ocasion, I'd be late and riding a bus that would guarantee it by a little. At some stops I'd hear that dreaded 'beep, beep, beep' tone when the bus was extendig the platform for a wheelchair. "Oh shit!" was my first reaction. "Now i'm really gonna be late." That was how it felt until one typiically late afternoon it flashed on me, how lucky I was to be able to walk on the bus. Further, to wind up at a great job serviing food to some of the most famous people in the world, in the best place in town! Asked my self: "what the Hell are YOU complaining about?"

Would I trade places with that unfortunate soul for even a day? For an hour?

Today, I go to malls, the streets, places like Wal~Mart and see so many examples of people no different from me, save being physically or developmentally challenged, who's entire lives will never see days like I've experienced; love like I've known; opportunities to express talents they possess in which few to no others are interested. I look also at the 'ungrateful' who are born mentally and physically gifted with good health that chose to throw it away like so much trash with addictions to substances or compulsive practices like meth, opiates, gambling, etc.

Among the most ungrateful of all are those who reject their special human gifts and healthy life potential by sacrificing it on altars of theological and pollitical promises for 'better' in Paradise or the future utopian existence; neither of which ever materialize in the same quality as the living potential and happiness potential THIS LIFE offers.

Ingratitude is but one toxic element in depression. Consider the possibility that it is poisoning your perceptions. If we are alive, Nature isn't wasteful. It is a good indication that potential for satisfaction lies ahead and we're still equipped to find it. Love yourself and forgive yourself for allowing unnecessary self-imposed limitations.

I escape into music. Just turn on the music, turn out the lights, and tune out the rest of the world.

Wrap myself in a blanket, curl up on the sofa, and indulge in something fun and/or meaningful on TV.