It will take a bit of time but you can do it if you stick with it. I recommend a yoga practice to start off with and I’ll even give you a website where you can learn a highly effective form of yoga for free.

In addition to the remedies suggested by all who posted before me, it’s also ESSENTIAL that you remove alcohol and white sugar from your diet. These two can wreak HAVOC w/ mental health. You don’t state whether you are currently on any allopathic meds or not, but pls. do not that the use of allopathic drugs w/ homeopathy can render the homeopathic remedies useless. Coffee, menthol, camphor, eucalyptus, and black pepper can also antidote the remedies. If you have a parent or parents or other direct relative w/ Bi-polar Disorder (BPD), whatever the kind, you are at a 1 in 4 risk genetically of uni-polar depression and its tendencies for your entire life. This is to say, if you have blood relatives with mental disorders, this put you at an extremely high risk of manifesting mental disorders yourself. It’s not that nothing can be done about it, but it indicates a strong genetic preposition rather than an imbalance that unique to just yourself. It can and could take up to 6 months to a year to see significant change in your mental well-being. I would also work w/ a trained homeopath, and not attempt to do this on my own b/c you will need objective insight into your condition, and constitutional strength remedies which are not usually available OTC. You also need to screen out all other conditions that this could be besides unipolar depression, such as a thyroid disorder (usually hypothyroid, and this can be subclinical, so don’t necessarily believe what your standard GP has to say unless they’re testing your T3 levels, and thyroxine I think it is, too.), PCOS, other endocrine disorders and auto-immune disorders such as diabetes, CFIDS, and lupus. Were it me (and actually, it is…), I would go to a Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner first and foremost. If you live anywhere near Allston, MA, go to Harvard Avenue in Allston/Brighton, and go see Dan Dan or her brother. (Preferably Dan Dan, I like her much better.) She is quite simply one of the best there is ANYWHERE. If finances are an issue, any Acupuncture School or School of TCM will have a student-run, teacher supervised clinic at very low cost. Go there. You also MUST clean up your diet. I would be EXTREMELY careful of any hormonally interfacing food, such as all dairy, eggs, and all meats. I would put myself on an elimination diet and a rotation diet subsequent to that to see what, if anything I am sensitive to, and what I seem to be having an allergic response to, keeping in mind that foods such as wheat and dairy, which are often eaten at every meal, are also the biggest offenders as far as allergies are concerned. We crave what we are most allergic to. Also research candida, b/c candida causes and worsens depression.

Many blessings upon you, as you start all your changes in search of health. You will not recognise yourself when you are done! And it is a wonderful path to walk. I would also say to you that ultimately, it almost doesn’t matter where you begin and what path to healing you choose w/ depression, as movement and change are the key to breaking up and resolving this disease. Any path will probably get you to a better place. I would also suggest the services of an orthomolecular MD, and/or a really good nutritionist. Let me know what state and city you’re in, and I can probably help you.