I see that you have a daily "Check in" thread here. That is exactly what I need, so here are some words from me.
In my opening post in the "New members" I told about my depression, about not having money to buy help from a therapist and that I had bought a CBT self-help book instead.
I have started reading into it and find it a bit difficult, but I will continue. It impresses me that the author has had a depression herself. She has references to different scientists, according to the methods she presents (makes her creditable), but I am only at her personal start-point.
So far the only thing that has given me motivation, is that this woman is a professional that had a depression herself. She used self-made methods combined with what she professionally knew about how to fight depression. I have some kind of health related education myself. It is good to think about that people of all kinds of educations can have depression. It makes one feel less lonely.
So even if my head is in strong pain and my energy is low, I felt a little motivational ray of light: Maybe I can find components from my own life and make my own kind of self-help that works for me only? May be, may be, or may be not... The most important now is that I have a tiny ray of hope.