Depression is often either overlooked or a term that is used out of context. People often say "I'm depressed today," which, to someone with depression is the same as telling someone they're "retarded." Its hurtful to those who actually do have the condition. It is demeaning and often once called out condescended.
So what do you do? Take medication that makes you completely emotionless 24/7? Lay in a "soothing" bath with candles lit and epson salt? Eat your feelings? Cry 'till your head throbs? Scream 'till your throat gives out? To tell you the truth, I've done it all, and nothing is a "cure". Nothing completely takes that debilitating throb from inside your bones. Some things distract you from it... for a minute.
If you are battling this horrid nightmare, I give you this advice to take: make peace with your past. This is all that has helped me in any way, and even that has not helped completely. Days, like today, I break and am as weak as ever, It's as if I never made progress at all on days like today, even though I know otherwise. Take days like mine today and don't fight it. Let yourself be upset; take time to let depression take its nasty course because everyone has days. Everyone is sometimes weak and we cannot give ourselves the unattainable standard of never being weak. But tomorrow; pick yourself up, and take yourself back.