Have you everbeen depressed?
How have you coped with depression?
I take my Cipralex for my depression, it helps. Exercise helps too but I dont do enough of that. Once I save up I might buy a treadmill.
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I think negative symptoms can lead to hopelessness sometimes, similar to depression.
Other times negative symptoms lead to apathy, nothing like depression.
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Caffeine helps. Sugar helps. Both are bad for my health. Maybe you could try moderate exercise. That might improve your mood.
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I got closure on what was making me depressed. Then my depression just went away. But I dealt with it for over a decade.
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You sound like you have been doing good for yourself.
Glad for you.
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Thanks @Kxev 
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I recently tend to have trouble waking up in the mornings, even after 9 solid hours of sleep. Dunno if depression is to blame. I also feel kind of down for the first 2 hours or so. But later on things get better.
I go for walks every day and I take an AD.
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My depression is serious business and even though most folks with sz experience depression it’s bad for me. I use the only med that seems to work well. It took me a lot of different ones to find that one that works and I stupidly came off it years ago only to have to get back on at crazy doses.
Lesson learned. I recently came down and halved what I take but antidressants are key for my function. Really are.
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Well I take Cymbalta (antidepressant) to keep from getting depressed. I’ve tried twice to come off AD’s, and it doesn’t work.
I suffer from severe Major Depression. I take Venlafaxine and Lithium to manage it, along with some psychotherapy from a psychologist. These work well for me.
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I take antidepressant.
I’ve been taking it even before sz
They tried me on ADs but they didn’t help
Then I was told it was negs not depression, so no treatment for it 
I take Wellbutrin. Drink coffee and go for walks in nature.
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Try and be grateful.
I have been depressed at times, since my teens. I have ups and downs, but no real mania. My downs are mostly influenced by (changes in) my family situation. I tried to change myself, them, my attitude, my diet. At the moment I don’t really know. I’m cutting off contact, but can’t help my kid, because I can’t change my family system by myself. Which is just an unacceptable feeling. I think anxiety and sadness are the correct feelings, and I don’t want to drug them away. But I did take a benzo yesterday. I hope there will be an up again and I will see things less somber. I’m holding on to not giving up for my kid, to faith, and to a few kind people.
I suffer with both mania and depression.
I’m on Lamictal for depression and it works to a degree.
I never had depression.
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im very depressed right now cause of family and personal issues
i cant help or fix the situations and that is hard for me to accept
when im well i can usually calm all the situations
but right now im just a dud all i want is everything to go right for once
talking on here has helped my depression
also i talk with social workers and pdoc several times a week
i also have dogs they are my children and help alot
Journalling, coffee, sleep, meds