If you live with depression, the simple morning awakening and being forced to get out of a bed to start a new day may seem like a struggle for you. Even routine activities such as taking a shower, eating, going to work can seem like big obstacles for a depressive person. An important key to managing life in these circumstances is to ensure that you receive treatment and take steps to create a reliable self-care system. Treatment may include psychological counseling, medication, or both. A competent psychologist can provide you with the necessary support and help you realize the reasons for a depressive state. In psychological counseling of people suffering from depression, various approaches are used, such as: cognitive, behavioral, personality-oriented. One of the most common symptoms of a depressive state is anhedonia. This is a decrease in pleasure or a complete loss of the ability to enjoy things, events, life situations that previously gave pleasure. This happens because of our selectivity of perception. In a depressed state, perception shifts its selectivity towards the negative, and the features of thinking in a state of depression underestimate the role of positive components in life. Here, individual consultations with a competent psychologist are an indispensable assistant. In counseling, the psychologist will help to rebuild the destructive attitudes of thinking and direct them towards the positive. Of course, it is important to be an active participant in your own wellness process. Undoubtedly this will require effort, but it can and should be done.