I am suffering through short periods of depression constantly. The reason they are short is because I know how to cure depression naturaly, without drugs, or other crap. It is different for everyone though. You must first find the source of the depression, most often it is emotional stress. If you fear things, you must not let them get in the way, concentrate, and focus on other things. Secondly, believe it or not, but laughter really cures depression, it works for me every time. Do not be shy about laghing out loud. Go to the internet, there is a lot of hilarious pictures and jokes or stories that will make histarical. Thirdly, try doing something fun, it does not always have to be expensive, you know yourself more than i do, do the things you enjoy most. if you do not like the job you have, take some time off, find another. If you dont have the education, think simpler that you will still like. See, because there really are only two states that you can be in, happy or depressed, and betwwen is a scale. black for example being totaly suicidal and white being absolutly happy and different shades of grey in between. Now this is a black and white example, and just like a rainbow all the emotions and the actions that you do due to the state you are in is like different colors. There is a huge difference between mood and emotions. Emotions a variable, which is dependant on mood and an action that whether happens physicaly outside or you think of it. Now mood, is a variable that depends on your average fun-meter scale in the past few weeks or days. If you do more things that you enjoy, rather than the things you dislike, you would in theory be happy (actualy this theory is backed up by a few experimants, so it is a good theory) And vice versa. Every person has different things that entertain him, and you have pick things that entertain you most. Is it violance, humor, friends, family, sex, food (not a good one), traveling, and so on. Analize youself well, and know what you want. And later on, if you know who you are and what you like, it will be easier to find the right person to love and be with, because she should be very similar to your characteristic, and belive me it will not be boring if you have a person who is very similar to you. If you want to discuss this deeper, please reply, I would love to discuss.