I'm turning 27 this year, and this summer I've started to work on my dysthymia (light but long-ass version of depression) which was fucking me for 9 years with various intensity, leaving me and keeping me as a total zero with no real skills, talents, goals and plans.
I do have some random and sporadic pieces of knowledge, abilities and very slight interests, but they're all useless and non-applicable. I also have uni bachelor's and master's degrees in Telecom, which I've chosen randomly and found them not really interesting and useless after. And by pure chance I've found a job in vocational school as an electronics teacher, which I'm currently working on, but, of course, with no real interest in this field, only to share my pieces of knowledge from uni and to have some money and routine to going,
so I won't be sucked into any deeper depressive state.
I've already took some steps by going to therapist, taking the meds that he prescribed (Valdoxan, meldonium+ethylmethylhydroxypyridine succinate) and fixing up my sleep schedule, just to check out any kind of biochemical and somatic shit. For now, it kinda works: I don't really feel like shit and I do have some internal energy going on. But I know I have to find some other ways to fix myself, so the positive effects of meds wouldn't be wasted in vain and to not just wait from one appointment to another.
I've consulted ChatGTP and some other stupid machines about my overall state before and after going to therapist, and they all giving the same long as fuck solutions: micro-actions, minimal exercising, balanced diet etc. They all sound good on the surface, but I can't help but find them too long, too tiresome and not very useful and helpful in a short-term.
So I'm asking it here: is there any kind of quick and working solutions for dysthymia?