What are good ways to get over depression?

Expressing yourself creatively like journaling, drawing, painting, writing poetry, basically keeping yourself occupied so that your mind doesn't focus on your depression and emotions. Distract yourself. Watch a movie, spend time with your pet if you have one, do some volunteer work... (I have depression myself and these things help).

If the depression is completely organic, meaning, it isn't necessarily an event or situation that is causing it, then I'd say that you'd pretty much need therapy/help of some sort (could be self-help, though I am skeptical someone depressed would be able to apply it properly to really help them) and/or medication. If the depression is situational, therapy might help, but it is more time that is needed to snap out of it.

Basically there are the several ways to get over the issue of depression. It is the issue which require the action but the processing of taking action when you are going through the feeling of depression than it can be hard for any person.