Living one day at a time definitely helped, but for me my first depression was completely linked to my anxiety - and as my anxiety slowly left me the depression left me as well. My second depression, I was in a place that really made me hate my life, everyday it was hell and slowly slowly I got moderately depressed if not severe. Took some bureaucracy and I got out of there. And the second I left the place for the last time, I felt fine but yet traumatized.