Being consistent, healthy, and regular with a number of things.
Attending professional talk therapy and taking prescribed dosage of psychiatric medication.
In therapy they will probably mention the following as well:
Sleep schedule (same bedtime and wake up time each day, long enough, restful, no screens in bed)
Exercise (helps with sleep and stress management, almost any routine aerobic or strength done to exhaustion will work if done multiple times a week)
Socializing (hanging out with a group of close friends at least once a week socially is the goal)
Diet (veggies, whole fruits, possibly vitamin B supplements)
Moderation or abstinence from legal recreational drugs. Abstinence from illegal recreational drugs.
Meditation and other forms of metacognition aka thinking about what you are thinking, often right in the moment when you are thinking the original thought to help manage your emotion response to internal or external stress.
Moderation or abstinence from social media, news, and most ad driven media
This is so cart before the horse though. All of those things can keep you out of depression, but they don't address the underlying problems if other things are going on.
It seems like the advice is "just be healthy and do healthy habits". None of them are hacks - they're just what everyone tells you to do. If they worked and this was the advice that was needed, we wouldn't have an epidemic.
Attending professional talk therapy and taking prescribed dosage of psychiatric medication.
In therapy they will probably mention the following as well:
Sleep schedule (same bedtime and wake up time each day, long enough, restful, no screens in bed)
Exercise (helps with sleep and stress management, almost any routine aerobic or strength done to exhaustion will work if done multiple times a week)
Socializing (hanging out with a group of close friends at least once a week socially is the goal)
Diet (veggies, whole fruits, possibly vitamin B supplements)
Moderation or abstinence from legal recreational drugs. Abstinence from illegal recreational drugs.
Meditation and other forms of metacognition aka thinking about what you are thinking, often right in the moment when you are thinking the original thought to help manage your emotion response to internal or external stress.
Moderation or abstinence from social media, news, and most ad driven media