my uninformed opinion on this is that there are countless way to suggest the same thing and maybe one will resonate with you. this would become a motivation to

my uninformed opinion on this is that there are countless way to suggest the same thing and maybe one will resonate with you. this would become a motivation to offer earnest advice and be prepared that likely you will not be that magic person. in this sense advices like "just do X" are useless, while advices like the one above are not. for sure serious depression is very unlikely to be treated that way, but for every case of clinical depression there are many less critical ones.