I haven't been depressed for years but sometimes you just gotta let time do the trick and make sure you don't do anything to harm yourself. I also laser focused on one thing and made it an obsession that it became a huge distraction and I got over my depression eventually.

I focused on playing Guild Wars at the time. I remember memorizing each skill and tactics in PvP so I can avoid thinking about what was making me depressed at the time . I wanted to be in the top PvP tier then got distracted by ingame Role Playing. That rekindled my interest in art again and now I am doing a comic based from the original RP stories I developed with the friends I made there. Yeah, it has come a long way. You'd be surprised at how life works. Also around that time, I met my now husband (not through Guild Wars. I met him at work lol).

All that didn't happen in one fell swoop of course. It was a gradual 1.5 year process but the distraction really helped with the coping and healing. Another thing that can help, although I didn't do it at the time, is working out. It's definitely a good stress reliever.

All in all, this may sound so cliche but just hang in there. You're in the right track about looking for distractions. Time heals, albeit a bit slow at times. *hugs*