I guess so, except depression doesn't respond to such things. Depression doesn't allow you to see the good things and if you do, you're guilty because you don't deserve it or youre unhappy despite it. You're an ungrateful *****. You're a burden and the suffering continues.

I'm not depressed now or at least not really and take the time to say my thanks but I never understood the idea that a depressed mind could consider a healthy perspective. It doesn't work that way, not when it gets to the point beyond angst and hating everything, where you don't respond, pretend all catatonic like, to those begging you to exist because really? What's the point? Even the good things torture a depressed mind.