Hi,

My opinion is that it if a certain approach to combating your depression doesn't seem to be helpful that it actually makes perfect sense to try a different approach. I'm not saying that I'd necessarily rule out the possibility that utilizing the conventional approach to treatment that you had been utilizing will ever be of any benefit to you again or that seeking assistance from a professional at any time when you might feel the need for it isn't a good idea, but I think that if you have good reason to believe that you're not benefiting from a more conventional approach approach to treatment that might include psychotherapy and/or medication that looking for other ways to help relieve your feelings and/or symptoms of depression is a better idea than relying solely on approaches to treatment that haven't helped you up to this point. There are many tools available to us to help combat depression. Psychotherapy and medications are two such tools, but they're not by any means the only tools that can be useful in helping to relieve depression. And even though I wouldn't advise deciding which tools to use to help manage your depression without receiving input from someone with proper training (and I'm not saying that you're doing this, as I know that you wrote that you e-mailed your primary care doctor about this), I'd have to agree with you that we do basically have to take it upon ourselves to evaluate which treatment options might be the most helpful, to decide which treatment options to try, and to ultimately figure out which treatment interventions best help us to achieve our goals of mental well being. You might not necessarily find all 10 of the things that you're planning to do to help combat your depression to be helpful, but I think that it would definitely be worthwhile to try doing the things that you're planning on doing to see what might help you, and I wish you luck with doing those things.