How to Deal with Depression and Anxiety: 10 Lessons from a Lake

Your doctor should be giving you tons of stroke protocols on how to deal with this, but if you get nothing this might help. I received nothing from my doctor.
A great Tiny Buddha post, full article at link.
http://tinybuddha.com/blog/deal-depression-anxiety-10-lessons-lake/
Here’s what I learned from the lake about overcoming depression and anxiety.

1. Acknowledge your emotional pain.

2. Practice distraction.

3. Accept what can’t be changed.

4. Become less self-critical.

5. Hold on to hope.

6. Become skilled at self-parenting your inner child.

7. Reduce big problems to small solutions.

8. Change what can be changed.

9. Boost your physical well-being.

10. Cultivate “flow.”