How did you get out of depression?

It's a long road and you really have to persevere. Depression is the act of stopping fighting and just giving up. I bought plants. If I stopped watering them (because I was down), they started to look dried up and it was a good visual clue to remind me that I was heading in the wrong direction.

In terms of of how to reverse the direction, exercise was key. Trying to be more social, pushing myself into uncomfortable things until they became less uncomfortable.