​​​​How To Get Rid Of Depression Forever: 6 Changes

Can depression be cured permanently?

Absolutely. There are 6 specific things you can do to get rid of depression naturally, without any drugs, pills, medication, or antidepressants.

The key to getting rid of depression for good is to make these types of positive changes a permanent part of your life.

So don’t think of these changes as temporary changes. Instead, think of them as permanent lifestyle changes — things you’ll do from this moment forward — to become and remain depression-free for the rest of your life.

How to beat depression forever: 6 changes

Out of all these changes, the most important thing that you can do to eliminate depression for good is to change your thinking. Specifically, replace negative thoughts that depress you with more positive thoughts that keep you happier and depression-free.

After all, while there are a variety of factors that can contribute to depression, what ultimately causes depression is your thinking. So make it a priority to always think in ways that keep you out of depression, if you want to never struggle with depression again.


1. Change your thinking

As the placebo effect proves, the most important factor for eliminating depression is to improve your thinking.

So be sure to replace negative thinking that depresses you with more positive thinking that makes you feel better. You can use the Negative Thinking Buster to help you do this.

2. Get a good amount of Omega 3 in your diet

Omega 3 is brain food that helps create a happier brain.

In “The Depression Cure”, Dr. Stephen Ilardi recommends daily taking omega 3 supplements that are molecularly distilled, combine EPA and DHA in a 2:1 ratio, and that provide enough EPA and DHA so that you can get at least 1,000 mg of EPA and 500 mg of DHA daily.

Of course, it’s a good idea to be smart and consult with your doctor before taking any supplements or significantly altering your diet.

3. Go outside & get sunlight

Sunlight sets off chemical processes that naturally help you feel better, healthier, happier, and stronger.

Even just 5 minutes of sunlight each day will help you a lot. Just be smart and wear sunscreen to take care of your skin.

4. Exercise regularly

Exercise helps you elevate your mood fast, and also makes you healthier, happier, stronger, and more energetic overall.

Even just a 5 or 10 minute walk will help you feel better. So strive to get at least some exercise every day, no matter how much it is.

5. Enjoy social interactions

Enjoying connecting with others naturally makes your life more meaningful, worthwhile, and enjoyable.

A social interaction can be as simple as a quick 5 minute call to a friend, or simply saying hello to the person taking your money at the grocery store.

So every day, strive to enjoy connecting with another human being at least once, even if it’s very brief.

6. Get plenty of restful sleep each night

Restful sleep makes you feel more calm, relaxed, clear-headed, energetic, and better, overall, which makes it very important for eliminating depression and staying depression-free.

The amount of recommended sleep varies according to who you ask. While 8 hours of sleep is a common recommendation, you might require more or less.

Ideally, aim for at least 7 hours of sleep every night.


Later in this course, you will learn more about how each of these positive changes helps you become and remain depression-free.

Make permanent changes & remain depression-free for life

One of the most important things for you to understand about depression is that it is not an inexplicable, mysterious condition that simply comes and goes with no rhyme or reason. Furthermore, it is not a condition that you are powerless to do anything about.

On the contrary, if you make the types of changes listed above to improve your thinking and lifestyle (especially improving your thinking above all else), then you can be guaranteed that you can and will eliminate depression. It’s only a matter of time.

Once you stop being depressed, it’s simply a matter of continuing to do these things to remain depression-free.

Indeed, if you find yourself getting depressed again, it’s not a mysterious condition that has returned for no reason at all. Examine your thinking and lifestyle, and you’ll see that you have undoubtedly slipped back into thinking and living in ways that contribute to depression.

The overall lesson is that to become and remain depression-free, make these positive changes a permanent part of your life. This is how to overcome depression forever and never deal with it again.

Make it easier to become & stay depression-free

There are two tools that you can use to make these types of positive changes a natural, everday part of your life, so that you find it easier to become and remain depression-free.

First, use the Daily Happiness Tool. This tool helps you think more positively every day, and it also helps you track what you are doing to be happy and depression-free every day (like getting exercise, sunlight, enjoying social interactions, and more).

Second, you can use the Negative Thinking Buster to eliminate stressful, negative thoughts that are making you depressed.

Remember, the biggest thing that makes you depressed is your thinking, and the Negative Thinking Buster helps you remove stressful negative thoughts for good, so that you become and remain depression-free faster and easier.

So, beginning today, start using the Daily Happiness Tool to become and remain depression-free faster with the positive changes you’ve just learned about.

And if there are specific negative thoughts you’d like to eliminate, use the Negative Thinking Buster to eliminate those thoughts for good.


Next: How To Beat Depression Fast →


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Section 4 Lessons:

  1. Is depression a good thing?
  2. Why do you want to stop being depressed?
  3. How to get rid of depression forever: 6 changes
  4. How to beat depression fast
  5. Is depression easy to cure?
  6. Can you beat depression on your own?
  7. Challenge your depression: 7 day depression challenge

Next Section In The Depression-Free Course:

Section 5


About the author

Hi, I'm Dave Fonvielle, the founder of Always Greater. On this website I teach you step by step how to be happier and more successful achieving your goals, whether it's completing a small personal to do task, like doing the dishes, or a large business goal, like launching a new product. Get my free 3 Tiny Habits for Being Happier & More Successful training for all of this right here.