Come out of depression

Managing your mind is a difficult task especially when you are not aware of its activities. You have to periodically reassure yourself and guide your mind in certain cheerful and positive pathways so that it does not get into depressed state. Mind can callously go into depressed state as a reaction to or reflection of uneasy and unpleasant happenings around you.
Depression may be temporary of short duration that passes off unnoticed or may be nagging longer duration. Enduring depression may be your own creation as result of brooding over whatever sour thing that happened around you and deeply affected you. Prolonged depression decreases your energy level and reduces your potential to achieve optimum results.
First you have to realize that you are depressed and recognize the necessity to save yourself by coming out of it. If you simply sympathizes with your self apologetically, or silently suffer or masochistically enjoy your depression, it is more likely you would not come out it easily. You may lead yourself to further unpleasant complications.
Next step would be to change your routine style of functioning for sometimes at least so that you shall forget the images that bruises your mind and thereby get rid of depression. Change of place or environment may helpful in many cases. Or change the usual style of attending to your work or alter the timings for a few days till you invigorate yourself. Mix up with pleasant and selfless friends. Try to enjoy some harmless jokes with your friends.
Volunteer yourself for some selfless social service activities and engage in it wholeheartedly.
Try to be like an innocent child that enjoys pondering over various small and minor things. Possibly because of your own depression you have forgotten to see around yourself or totally oblivious of the beauty and charm of the nature around you. Take pleasure in observing minor aspects of nature intently and unassumingly like a small child. Bathe in the healing powers of the fresh air, the greenery, the expansiveness, the warmth and the pleasantness the nature bestows upon you.