No - YOU can change anything. Very fortunate for you. After years of disabling depression, it wasn't until I had some very lucky breaks and found the right medi

No - YOU can change anything. Very fortunate for you. After years of disabling depression, it wasn't until I had some very lucky breaks and found the right medication that I was able to start treating myself decently, at least some of the time, and it was months after that I was able to begin working on my life and taking things on. Very fortunate for me. There are components to depression that make it less and less tractable as it advances. Sometimes personal responsibility is the last thing you need; other times it is the first. To nurse a starving person back to health, it is important to feed them, as much as it is for them to /regularly/ exert themselves to an extent they can manage. That can be as little as brushing their teeth, to start. And that daily regularity can only be achieved with nutrients - real and analogical! The internet seems to be awash with bootstrap psychotherapeutic approaches to depression -- do your CBT, do mindfulness. These can work, but they do involve a load; often there are social components to depression that reduce load-bearing capabilities significantly, and this fact should be recognised. As efficacious as those treatments otherwise seem to be.