Thanks for sharing. Yes, sharing helps me too when I feel depressed, just to get the pressure off. Good tips. I'll look up your first post about your gratitude list, that sounds interesting. I usually start feeling better when I fully accept that I feel totally shit. That sounds like a contradiction I know, but I usually try to stay on top of it and then the tention just keeps building, once I allow all the sadness to flow, that's what it does. It just flows and before I know it it will have flown out of my system and I can breath again.
Meditation is for me also a maintenance thing and sometimes it gets me out of my usually short depressions but usually it will be an emotional shift by managing my emotions. I wrote about it in this post: https://steemit.com/ecotrain/@wombloom/what-does-it-mean-to-own-your-emotions-ecotrain-question-of-the-week if you're interested.