Stay positive regardless. Try your hardest to be optimistic. Maintain a level head and don’t do anything permanent on temporary feelings. Be nice to people regardless of how you are feeling. Being nice is not about running around manically smiling and doing everyone’s bidding. It’s not about being phony – it’s valuing niceness in yourself and in others- the same way you respect intelligence, beauty, or talent.

Most of us don’t mean to be depressed. And ultimately no one ” gets it”. It’s hard when your depressed because you can’t see yourself the way others do ( even if your awesome- we tend to compare the worst of ourselves to the best of someone else). So do an inventory of all the people in your life. ask yourself what kind of character do you play in their movie? Are you a loving, doting person? Are you supportive to those around you? Love will heal depression. The more you give love the better you’ll feel. Our capacity for love isn’t finite, either.

Then you have to balance your academic intelligence with your emotional and social intelligence.This year especially, I’ve learned that my social intelligence will have a greater impact than my knowledge of shakespearean sonnets or mathematical algorithms. So working on my relationships have been the goal. I would consider myself more cerebral; than emotional, so I have a hard time showing that side of myself. Or become perplexed, when someone else is emotional, because I have a hard time understanding there point of view, I intellectualize everything- it makes me uncomfortable.

For one day, try to keep the focus away from yourself (to stop from being depressed). When you’re tempted to tell a story, ask a question instead and listen to other people’s problems for like a whole day and don’t share yours. I swear afterwards you feel so much better, It makes it much easier to forget about your own problems, because there is always someone out there that is living worse than you. I hope this helps. You are in my thoughts and prayers. Remember that, someone out there cares about you, I do.