This is one of the techniques I use for my depression and it does help me "deal with it". In my case "deal with it" doesn't mean "make me not depressed": I'm s

This is one of the techniques I use for my depression and it does help me "deal with it". In my case "deal with it" doesn't mean "make me not depressed": I'm still depressed but it does help me turn some some of my bad, hard-to-do-anything days into ok or even occasionally productive ones. And having something useful come out of a day I thought I would be useless is also helpful in fighting depressive thought loops about being a useless/lazy/bad person generally speaking.