How do I get myself out of severe depression?

@BigImo because of course, it's just *totally* that simple.
Oh. Wait.

@Philth if I'd known it was that simple I wouldn't have wasted all that money on drugs

@BigImo I'm not sure if my way of putting that was slightly lost in translation. But anyone claiming to have had low mood which was cured by "thinking positive / happy thoughts or going for a walk," then I'm terribly sorry but that wasn't really depression. That's the point I was trying to make. Genuine depression is never cured by those things, because it's not that simple, and anyone recommending these remedies quite frankly has no place in claiming to be a therapist on the matter.
Depression proper is a seriously debilitating condition for which there is no straightforward cure... And it's often lifelong.