In my entire life, I was never depressed for more than 2 days. There are a type of people who are just immune to depression and have neuromechanism that directs thoughts to not go that way or produces happy positive thoughts that counteract the difficult experience they just had.
To assure you, I am NOT one of them. I am an extroverted introvert (will talk about that later), an analytical scientist, and can be gloomy and melancholy as a fungus in the corner of the bathroom. Nonetheless, I never suffered a severe and chronic depression.
My life isn’t a walk on a cloud all the time. It has been fairly rough for me. But that is why I have always had a sense of urgency that if I stay stuck, I am only extending suffering and not benefiting from it at all. A word “benefit” is a powerful incentive when you are experiencing all sorts of lacks including the lack of energy. I didn’t wish to be where there is no benefit for me to stay, so I wanted to get out of it as soon as I slip into a psychological blackhole. My 48-hour rule was born. My number one rule for antidepression.