"resist depression" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to strategies an individual can use to fight depression and its symptoms. For example, "It is important to use healthy coping mechanisms to resist depression."
Many participants believed in a personal responsibility for resisting depression or to make the changes needed to get better.
Literature describes resilience in managing or resisting depression as drawing on personal resources ('being strong') and deriving support from the network of people around the depression sufferer [ 33].
Like Americans after Sept. 11, Russians are trying to rebuild and resist fear and depression.
"I'm absolutely convinced that for students, postgraduates, academic staff and support staff this is a natural, healthy, risk-free way of finding greater concentration and ensuring better mental health, and the ability to resist the problems of depression and anxiety and phobias and addictions," he says.
"People won't fall into depression, they'll resist … and this may take on a pro-Russian tone, not because Russia is good and is calling them to do it, but because people see Crimea joining Russia as a way to jump off a burning train, to get out of the Ukrainian crisis".
After adjusting for all variables the association of unnatural death of family and very ill without access to medical care with depression failed to resist (Table 5).
But had Radke-Yarrow focused solely on maternal depression, her work would still resist simple summation.
Depression can arise when we resist feeling pain, sadness, or anger directly.
Keynes made and lost a fortune three times; he suffered fits of depression and attacks of nerves; he could never resist an intriguing story about a stock.
