Tips on how to get out of depression

When someone once said to me they were trying to get out of their head, I believe they were telling me they were trying to get out of focusing on the depression. I wondered, yes but how? It's hard to do that from bed. I decided to watch a rock grow. Silly of course. Imagining myself watching an object that does not move. So I stared at the rock, willing it to grow. And I imagined someone walking in asking what I thought I was doing. I felt silly. And then I realized I had done something that did not focus on just me and how I was feeling. I try to concentrate on looking a single leaf waving in the breeze from a tree, looking at the details of a rock, playing 'I Spy' with myself outside or in the living room. It takes my mind off me and how miserable depression is. It helps by keeping me mindful of things outside myself. And it breaks my concentration on past and current relationships with people. I try this more often now because I have noticed I feel better overall even though I experience the sadness deeply many times a day. I hope that is some measure of help to you.