OH YEAH I almost forgot: Spending time w/ animals is a great replacement for therapy in a lot of ways. If you have a no kill shelter around you, (I'm sure you do we're everywhere!!!) try to get involved in some way. I do photography & graphic design for our shelter and it's great for me and them because I use my creativity for good, and because I'm good at what I do more people come to our adoption events and adopted cats and dogs. The ones I worked with/the one I'm on the board for, you can just go in and pick up whoever you want, there's loose cats running around and they're all so happy to see you that you just can't feel ****ty. People forget how helpful animals can be for mental health, but I think they're very important for this purpose. That's why my babycat is so important to me, because he's trusting with me and regards me as his Mama Cat, so he watches over me if I'm sick (because he can always tell) or I'm depressed or something awful has happened to me.
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