>>132821967your finances, your knowledge, your health, your skills, your talents, your physique, your living space, your relationships to family and friends, your experiences of new places and things and ideas and culture, your religious devotion, your role as a citizen within a democracy, your contribution to others and society, your challenging and conquering of anything uncomfortable or unfamiliar.
if you ignore these things and let them deteriorate then depression is the result. if your response to depression is to cope with quick-fixes and compulsive behavior, you may change your emotional state in the moment, but you don't address the cause, and your relief is short lived.