as much as i don't want to even move when i'm depressed, going outside, going for a walk, even just sitting outside and breathing - getting out of the house and out of my dark environment can be a turning point.
it's hard for me to accept a lot of attention when i'm depressed. (i was in a long depression and am now recently feeling much better) i want to be invisible. so writing down what i'm thinking - again, as tired as that made me feel - helped clarify things.
i liked the suggestions related to submission. the structure, the idea of having to do something because He asked me to, the focus on something outside myself sounds like something that would have lifted the heaviness.
take care.