Serious How do you deal with depression?

In all seriousness I dealt with severe depression from 5th to 7th grade. Clinical depression. And I was very, very atheist, My father had been there but wasnt there since he was drugged up, and his divorce with my previous stepmother was a disaster only causing more fuel to his addiction, so I hated everything, but one day I prayed to God from the bottom of my heart for the first time, and everything changed, He started recovery and went to treatment, following his release he was permanently sober from then on, and then we started to go to church, I thought I was a load of b.s. but I slowly converted and now I am a full blown Christian, life is better than ever, my father found his soulmate and I was cleared from depression soon after, just take a minute and go to God man, it helps.