What are some ways to deal with a depression relapse?

Try to think of recovery as a set of traffic lights. Green is when you are doing well, amber may be those grey days and red lights would be your relapses. A good thing to remember is that you will never go backwards, but may have to stop, think and take a few moments to yourself

I try and focus on all the positivity that happened before the relapse started.Then I go somewhere quiet and read a book or draw or write.

Not again... The feeling of after the crest and when you begin to slip into a relapse of depression, the "here I go again"... I need to take a moment to reboot, to think of things that pull me out of the blues, just a general list to look at and consider. That list hangs around, gets updated every so often, but it helps me look for the time or times that those thoughts and ideas help, and seems to help work the tumblers to the lock which holds hope and happiness for me. I realize that my steps, my goals aren't forced. Sometimes my list cheers me up just reading it. It is past efforts that made me smile and move forward before. It becomes like an old friend that reminds me of "good times." Like a friend I haven't seen or talked to, we reminisce about this list we share. From then, as it feels comfortable, we try those items that we shared, to bring a little joy back, that community we had from before and together we work to put a smile on my face.