I shall write only of solutions, which works for me, though not all time and, every season, but, certainly large part of year, while my antidepressants continues.
When Covid came in notice in March 2020, life was gloomy all around, people became prisoners of home or places, wherever, they were.
Fear of death, uncertainty of life, worries of daily survival took over on majority of humanity on earth.
Leave apart those, who were already depressed, even those, who knew nothing about depression or ever faced it, also, had first time taste of depression.
So, what I did? I have some agricultural land with lots of trees 🌳, my age is 58 years, I started watering those trees, outside temperature was 30 to 34 degrees Celsius, on very first day, I got tired in 15 minutes, head and body started burning due to hot Sun, but, to cool down body, I poured the water from the pipe on my body for few minutes, this worked as magic, the suffering caused by hot Sun 🌞 disappeared and, I got renewed energy to continue to work.
First day, I could work only for one hour, but, in a month's time, my stamina built and I was able to work of giving water from morning, 6 am to evening 6 pm.
Initially, I was so depressed, that, I had no desire to have breakfast and lunch, but, as, time passed, when, my mind started getting away from that vicious thought circle of depression, I started developing hunger, little by little, body started regaining its strength and, so did joy of living appeared miraculously.
It has been 15 years, I was struggling with depression, taking all kinds of antidepressants, but, first time after so many years, I felt like a normal human, thought of suicide disappeared, desire to live the life came back, I was able to see the beauty in nature, blooming of Flowers and colors were clearly visible, singing of Birds 🐦 were clearly audible.
So, trees needed water from November till end of May, totally 7 months, I was happy and busy with watering Trees, the time passed like never before.
Then came Monsoon of year 2021, Trees needed no more water, Sky was Grey, non stop downpour for next 5 month from June to October end, with no physical work to do, no space to walk in non stop Rain, the deep depression came back.
End of story, lesson learnt, depression could be brought under control, if, there is a physical or mental activity of choice to do, it helps to a large extent.
Now, November has started, soon, my work of watering the trees will start and, hopefully, I will be out of depression again to live normal life, like others.
