Depression is a serious problem that countless people struggle with; therefore most doctors and doctors try to develop drugs or new counseling techniques to defeat this terrible enemy, but perhaps none of these solutions are the answer to defeat depression once and for all. Pam Houston suggests another solution in her story “A Blizzard under Blue Sky.” Houston's story begins with the narrator being diagnosed with clinical depression, but she refuses to take the medications offered by her doctor to help her overcome the depression. Instead of taking drugs, he decided to go winter camping because he says he loves the natural world because it “gives you what's good for you even if you don't know it at the time” (284). As the story continues, she describes the different activities that took place during her winter camping trip, but her depression remained as she continued to think about the things that were holding her down, like bills and deadlines. As night falls in Houston's story, the narrator spends a rough night in subzero weather, but when morning comes she realizes that she hasn't thought about all the things that have been giving her stress all night, and has been happy to do it. see the morning come. At the end of the story, the narrator feels happy and actually begins to enjoy the camping trip, thus defeating her depression. “A Blizzard under Blue Sky” provides ample evidence that it is possible to get out of depression without the use of drugs or therapy by doing activities that you enjoy taking your mind off the things that cause stress and depression. One of the most common solutions to depression is the use of antidepressant medications, but these medications really are as much help as they are... middle of paper... they far outweigh the benefits. When it comes to therapy and counseling, it's hit or miss because it doesn't always work for every type of depression. Since these other two solutions are not reliable, Houston's solution of taking his mind off the things he is depressed about by doing things he loves is the most plausible solution to defeating depression. While Houston's solution may be plausible, she admits, near the end of the story, that it may not work for everyone. Perhaps the best way to overcome depression permanently is to directly address your problems and try to eliminate their cause. Works Cited Houston, Pam. “A blizzard under the blue sky.” Read literature and write arguments. Custom edition for Oklahoma City Community College. Eds. Missy James and Alan P. Merickel. NewJersey: Prentice Hall, 2008. 283-287. Press.