Combating Depression

After reading many of Nietzsche's arguments, his argument as to how to combat depression makes the most sense to me. To fight depression, he recommend "petty pleasure" (135). Furthermore, he cites that the most common form of this pleasure is that "of the pleasure of giving pleasure" (135) meaning helping others with their problems. Most interestingly, he says that the happiness of doing good things for others originates from your "slight superiority" (135). In most of my experiences, as horrible as it seems, the feeling of having slight superiority over those I teach or help makes me feel valuable as person. For example, when I was an adolescent, my mother and I delivered food to the houses of low-income persons on Saturday mornings. Besides from the idea that I was providing food to one of God's creatures that needed it, what also unconsciously made me feel good was the fact that I was in the position to be distributing the food.