Q: When you are recovering from depression it is especially important to get professional help in order to help ensure that the gloomy mood does not return, or that it is less severe if it does. Thus, if you have already been attending treatment continue working on your treatment plan. If you already have a therapist, discuss new goals that you'd like to work on. Make sure you follow through and continue attending your appointments. If you don't have a therapist to help treat your depression, try it. This can be useful even if you aren't currently feeling depressed. A therapist or psychologist can help you reduce the likelihood of worsening depression by using specific interventions, such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which help to change your thinking to promote lasting well-being. Continue seeing your psychiatrist and taking medication as prescribed. Talk to a medical doctor about your health, diet, and exercise. Addiction can worsen the symptoms of depression, making recovery difficult. Whether it be substances, food, gambling, shopping, self-harm, sex, or eating disorders, you can get specialized addiction counseling. It may be necessary to treat the depression and addiction simultaneously, as depression and addiction are often closely linked. One way to seek help is to speak with your medical doctor, therapist, or psychiatrist. They can give you a referral for chemical dependency treatment. Some therapists even specialize in drug treatment. You can participate in outpatient treatment or inpatient treatment (drug rehab). You can also seek help by joining a 12-step group such as Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A) or Narcotics Anonymous (N.A). Recovery from any addiction takes time, but it will be worth it in the end and will help to support your overall health and reduce your depression. Sometimes during a bout of depression people can lose contact with important friends, family members, and other interpersonal relationships. However, social support is so important to maintaining a depression-free lifestyle, reducing the likelihood that depression will re-occur, and bouncing back from difficult life situations. Send an email, text, card or letter asking how your friend is doing. Focus on the positive things you're doing in your life, and ask questions. Phone a friend and invite her to meet up for lunch or a coffee. Social support, especially support from others that are in your same position, can be extremely useful in recovering from depression and continuing to maintain a healthy outlook. After a depression you may feel well enough to cultivate new relationships, especially if you have discarded damaging or unproductive friendships. By doing the things you are interested in, you may be able to meet people with the same interests and similar personalities. Join a church, club, sport team, community college, neighborhood center class, charity, etc. Try Meetup.com, which is a useful website for finding groups of like-minded people with similar interests. Some examples include: singles groups, hiking groups, acting troupes, and rock-climbing enthusiasts. Can't find the right group or club? You can start your own! Try starting a book club. Spread the word amongst friends and acquaintances, put ads up at local libraries, and ask everyone to bring a small plate to share. Or, you could start a fitness club and meet at a park and pay for a personal trainer, splitting the cost between the group. Whenever you receive a social invitation, try to say yes. The more times you say yes, the more invites you might receive. Also, for every time a friend invites you to do something, invite them to something the following week. This keeps the balance equal and you both feel valued.
A: Get professional support. Seek help if an addiction is affecting your life. Reconnect. Join a support group. Make new friends.

Q: Bring a pot of water to boil. To brew your coffee, try to get your water as close as possible to 200F (93C). Be sure to use clean, filtered water for the best taste. Either use a kettle that has a long thin spout or carefully transfer the water to a pouring kettle with a long thin spout. Take care not to burn yourself when handling boiling water. For a very dark roast, use water closer to 195F (91C) to prevent getting a burnt, bitter taste. Unfold your paper filter and place it so that it fits the single cup brewer that you set over your coffee mug. Pour a little hot water over the filter so that it's completely soaked. Carefully pour out and discard the soaking liquid. There are a variety of single cup cone brewers available. These include Kalita, Bee House, Clever Dripper, and Hario V60. The brewer will sit atop the serving mug so the coffee filters directly down and into your mug. Weigh out 24 grams or about 2 tablespoons of ground coffee for your pour over brewer. Always use medium-coarse grounds. Using the right grounds will create the right extraction for the time you're brewing. For example, using a larger surface area (coarse grounds) requires longer brewing time than fine grounds that only need a quick extraction. If you can, grind your beans just before using them. Fresher beans will make a better tasting pot of coffee. If you need to buy pre-ground coffee, just take care to store it in an air-tight container out of direct sunlight and use it within a week. Place the grounds in the pre-moistened filter that should still be in the top of your pour over brewer. You should also have a digital timer or clock ready before you start brewing. You'll use about 400 grams of water which will yield one large cup of coffee. Start the digital timer or look at the clock to keep track of when you start brewing. Slowly pour about 1/4 of a cup or 50 grams of the hot water over the grounds in the filter. Gently stir the grounds and water (known as a slurry) with a spoon or chopstick. Stirring can break up any clumps of coffee grounds and make sure the grounds are completely saturated. Once your grounds are saturated, wait for 30 seconds. This allows the coffee grounds to bloom. Slowly, pour more water over the grounds so the filter is always half-full of water. You should use a circular wiggling motion when pouring the water over the grounds. This can help mix the coffee and water together. The water will slowly filter through the grounds and the paper, into the bottom of the pour over brewer. You don't need to stir the coffee; just let it filter down. Remove the filter and drink your coffee. This entire process should take a total of 2 1/2 to 3 minutes from the time you started brewing.
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Boil water. Preheat the pour over and filter. Measure your coffee. Prepare the pour over brewer. Saturate the grounds. Wait and pour water over the grounds. Let the coffee brew.