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Depends what the cause of your depression is. Your counsellor should be able to help you find that out, if the cause is circumstantial. But if there's a physical cause e.g. diet or allergies, the counsellor won't be much use. What's worked for me is being able to take control of things for myself. I reacted badly to all prescription antidepressants I tried & so gave up on them. Then I discovered you can get St John's Wort without prescription & this allowed me to get in control of the medication. Victory number 1. Then, to overcome the lethargy of depression I looked up the food colourings that make kids hyperactive & took them in big doses. It kick started my drive to be active (victory number 2), but made me crabby tempered. So I stopped taking them & discovered I could be just as active without them (victory number 3). Having become active & taking mega amounts of exercise, I began to feel good when I exercised (victory number 4), but it didn't treat the cause of the problem, which in my case turned out to be brain damage as a result of trauma. So I began to read up about that & found a specialist counsellor who could deal with the trauma (victory5), & also discovered my brain needed tryptophan & selenium to help it recover, so I looked up the foods that contain high doses of them (bananas, chocolate, fish-oil & marmite for the tryptophan, fruit juices with vitamins A, C & E taken 3-4 times daily for the selenium) & started using them (victory 6). By this time, I felt pretty "normal", but then while I was on holiday in Corsica I began to feel really good. I wondered if it was the food. I'd been eating pate tete on my sandwiches for 3 days & wondered if it was that. Tried iot again on my next visit & it worked again, then tried it again on a visit to France - still good (victory 7). Found the same in England is called brawn, so I've been using that ever since. The effect lasts about 2 weeks, but far better if I have brawn at least twice a week. I'd recommend you get checked out to see if you've got any allergies - a kinesiologist will help there, then take charge of the treatment for yourself. You'll discover what works for you & what doesn't far better than anybody else will. Best of luck!