Battling Depression

As always, I am fighting depression.  It makes me sensitive.  It makes me worry and ruminate.  I am sick to death of taking more medication.  I don't want to increase the dose of anti-depressant.  So I am building a strategy to mitigate the winter dark, the stress of life changes, the audacity of habits of mind, and the cruelty of brain chemistry.

• I am meditating daily.  And reading about how meditating has worked for others as motivation to keep at it.
• I am walking or exercising every day.  There are lots of new places to explore near my new home. That, and walking up and down the steps as I unpack from the move is helpful.  
• I am practicing Gratitude.  Each evening writing down two things that I am grateful for and making a point of finding something in another person that I am grateful for, and telling them

Not sure if my strategy is working, or if it's simply that I have a strategy, or if something else has shifted, but I do feel somewhat better right now.