Try to hang on to the memory of any moments that the sun comes out. With depression, once the clouds come back it feels like a permanent eclipse and we are unable to remember or "feel" any sense of improvement. If you have even fleeting moments that you notice things are better... you catch yourself laughing or enjoying something for a moment, caring, or just not feeling numb... try to set aside the memory of that, maybe even write it down, so that even if you can not recapture it, you have a record that it was not an illusion or a dream, that there are times when you are capable of feeling better, if even slightly. Work toward more frequent and more extended periods of that.

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