Your dad loves you very much, and he is just trying to motivate you the only way he knows how. When I went through my only depressed episode I used to lie on my bed all weekend. My wife came into the bedroom one day and started screaming at me at the top of her voice, telling me to get up and go outside and mow the lawn. You know what? I got up, went outside and mowed the lawn, and I felt a little better. I have found that a structured life has helped me a lot, and especially having active children. My wife makes me take them to their regular sporting events every week, I don't have much opportunity to sit around doing nothing. I think inactivity and boredom feed depression. Structuring my life has helped me. I don't suffer from depression now.