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If you're dealing with depression one of your most important tools for managing your symptoms is humor. Humor may be the very last thing on your mind if you're dealing with depression, but it's a tool that can help you change your perspective. Viewing life with a more humorous outlook can help snap you out of a negative frame of mind.

A humorous outlook doesn't mean you have to make a joke of everything happens. Instead, it can help you find balance, perspective, and view things a bit more lightly. Humor allows you to be forgiving with yourself and to understand that you're human and completely fallible. To create a more humorous outlook, give yourself permission to laugh at your own behaviors (but not at yourself... there's a difference). Try being a bit silly now and then -- do something you wouldn't normally do, act like a kid -- life isn't all about bills and seriousness so let yourself have a little fun. This article has more information on the benefits of inserting humor into your life and more tips on how to cultivate humor.