You can’t solely rely on medication to overcome depression. I literally just did a research paper on physical activity and mental health, and one of the studies explored the effects of pharmacological substances and exercise in treating depression. The control group just took the drug treatment whereas the test group was prescribed an aerobic activity plan while taking drug treatment. The group that was both taking medication and exercising had a substantial decrease in their depressive symptoms as opposed to the group just taking the drugs.

Point I’m making: you need to be proactive! You can’t sit around and just hope things will work, and by taking a pill you will feel better. Be proactive, make the change, get up and start moving! Sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself isn’t going to do you any favours. I know this through experience, and it isn’t fun. But you have to be willing to change yourself. If you don’t do so, then what are you doing? Just existing and relying on hope to bring you out of the rut? No, you need to act! First step is acknowledging there is a problem, second step is putting a meaning behind and producing an emotional response, and thirdly it’s acting on the emotional response (the “now what?”). By doing this accordingly, you can get out of any situation or circumstance you’re in.

But it has to start with you!