Embrace the misery.
I have had problems with severe depression for most of my life. I’m talking serious sit in the dark holding a big pot of pills depression.
If you are depressed, looking at it from the inside, then you probably can’t see the reason in my method, but for me it works.
When I notice I am starting to get depressed, I take a step back and remind my self that depression is something I do to my self, and that I have the ability to stop it by will alone.
One day I will die, one day the sun will extinguish, one day our entire galaxy will collide with Andromeda, one day the universe will just stop existing all together. In 30 billion years, when time is broken, your light bulbs wont seem like such a big deal.
Sure, sitting in a dark room thinking about ending your own life may not be all that happy and jolly, but at least it is interesting. At least more interesting that watching Dancing with the idiots on TV.
Why worry about light bulbs, when you could find a sadist on craigs list, and volunteer to have them come round and torture you for a while.
Watch Fight Club, read some Nietzsche, watch Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot, then go out and find an interesting way to amuse yourself. Perhaps entertain yourself by telling a stranger in an elevator out of the blue that you think about hacking off a limb for fun, see how they react to that information.
…. or not.