How do you battle depression by your own?

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How do you battle depression by your own? - Lemmings.world

AKA please, don’t tell me “get professional help”. Poor people can’t afford it anyways.

Lots of other people have said running & friends, those things help me. But recently/now I am depressed and running 40 miles a week and seeing my friends regularly.

What’s a really cheap solution? Pirate some bibliotherapy books! Feeling good by David D. Burns is older, but I’m reading it right now and it seems like a really solid CBT book. I would also recommend “Adult children of emotionally immature parents”. It helped me understand why I am the way I am