1. Ask the Good Shepherd, “would you help me fight against hopelessness and show me when it first starts inside because often I don’t recognize it.”
2. Deal with self-hatred first because self-hatred fuels hopelessness
3. Learn how to fight spiritually in general, that is, how to fight the lies that the world and satan and our own flesh try to build in our lives
4. Study the word “hope” in the Bible
5. Remind yourself of ten things that are true
6. Talk to the “God of Hope” (that’s another name for the Good Shepherd) about your whole situation
7. Learn to see hopelessness not as a friend but as an enemy
8. Learn to refuse to hide in hopelessness
9. (Especially relevant to those where there was SRA in their background) a curse against us of hopelessness may have been placed on our life and needs to be removed
10. Consider how you can include exercise and getting outside 
