This may sound counterintuitive, but switching your brain from depressed, negative thoughts straight to positive ones isn't always easy — otherwise, you wouldn't be feeling depressed in the first place.
Psychotherapist Ava Diamond, LCSW, creator of Mental Fitness & Nutritional Psychology Coaching, said to instead think about neutral thoughts and to neutralise thoughts with facts.
"If you are seeing life through a depressed lens, you can still focus on something that you believe to be true that is simply neither positive nor negative," she told POPSUGAR. "Usually, I suggest that the fact be something about yourself that you know is accurate, such as, 'I have gotten through holidays before, and this will be over in a couple of days.'"