In an earlier post, I described one of my first steps in recovery: writing out an inventory of each symptom of depression I experienced. Until I did that, every time depression hit I felt helpless before a huge overwhelming force. Once I wrote down the details of exactly what I experienced, though, this massive thing suddenly seemed a little more manageable.

After that step, I needed to come up with a strategy to deal with each of those symptoms. Which one should I start with?

In my case, there...