Consider depression as a separate personality who is out to convince you to hate and hurt yourself. It’s not as severe as having multiple personalities, but it is very similar. We are can be easily deceived by all the reasons our depressive personality gives us to hate and hurt ourselves, and we consider it very logical, but when taking a step back, the logic is not there. Somehow, we need to separate ourselves from this depressive personality, and recognize that that personality is not our true selves. If this was the case, then I would have been dead a long time ago. What a waste that would have been. Do not let that depressive personality lead your life, but it will probably be difficult to do so alone. This is why there are friends and God. God’s pretty strong and He is able to lend his strength in us, but why should he lend His strength to those who refuse Him?