How can I cheer myself up when I'm depressed?

Ok I know this sounds really weird but, pretend to be happy and act happy around people. Eventually you will just become happy everywhere. You will go through some ups and downs during this process and it will take a bit of time to really work but eventually you will see the positive results. Just remember to have someone there you can talk to about everything and you don’t have to hide your true feelings from EVERYONE. And also just be confident in yourself. That doesn’t mean thinking your brilliant and going all big-headed it just means that you are able to go up to random strangers and make conversation confidently. Another really important thing if to find the source and origin of your depression and try to do something about it.

I suffered from clinical depression from the age of 4, trying to comitt suicide pretty much every night until I was about 13-14. I was never happy but never really told anyone about my experiences but never really pretended to be happy. When I was 12 I moved to a completely different part of the country and started telling my new friends about my experience. However, they just thought I was attention seeking, leading me into more depression. Eventually, my friends decided to tell me to stop attention seeking and there was nothing really bad in my life blah blah blah. I made a vow to myself after this that I would never show my true feelings to anyone ever again. And so I started pretending to be happy. I am now 15 and have the best social life, am confident and happy. Although I have tried to comitt suicide a couple of times since my vow I am happy and don’t want to die. I have the best friend in the world who I can talk to about anything and I would give up ANYTHING to keep her as close as we are now for the rest of my life. And my friends have at last realised that, yes, I do have ALOT to be depressed about.

I hope this helped, let me know how everything goes and I am here if you need anyone to talk to x