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I'll tell you some mistakes that depressed people often make.
One is to slack off without relaxing. Because of that sense of fatigue, it seems that the best thing is to slack off - lie down and just stare at the ceiling or listen to music. But that's not relaxing, and relaxing is good. Stress, anxiety, tension, and depression are all related. It may feel like you don't have any energy, but actually you're loaded with nervous energy, wired, irritable, and what you should do is relax.
You've probably heard that exercise is good for depression. That's true. In fact, even light exercise - as little as 20 min of brisk walking a day - can help, and you can add to that gradually. A mistake people often make is thinking that only very strenuous activity helps. People try to be athletes and torture themselves jogging until they're sick of exercise and quit.
A common symptom of depression is negative thoughts - thoughts that are false or otherwise useless. People know that these thoughts make the way they feel worse, so they fight with the thoughts, which is not necessary. Fighting with yourself just adds tension. Stay in touch with your feelings. This is easier if you practice mindfulness. When you feel a bad mood shift, examine the thought you just had, see if it's false or otherwise useless. if you see a thought as negative, let it go. You don't have to fight with it. It's like turning on a light in a cheap hotel room and a bug on the floor scurries away.
These three things - relaxation, exercise , and monitoring for negative thoughts are very good self-help. I'll show you resources you can use for these things. I should point out that the experts on self-help say that this is not meant to replace regular treatment with office visits. Treatment usually begins with a visit to the family doctor, who can give you a physical and maybe a good referral. Just a bottle of pills is not a very good approach.
Practicing a good breathing exercise daily is a good way to bring your stress down, I'll give you a good exercise, and one more effective exercise.
Here's a breathing exercise from The Healing Power of the Breath by psychiatrists Brown and Gerbarg. They recommend 20 min. of this twice a day. Lie or sit comfortably so you can breathe freely, with a hand on your abdomen to feel it go in and out. Breathe slowly through your nose, 5 breaths a minute, inhale about 4 sec., exhale about 4 sec. The authors have published 6 papers on breathing exercises and use them in their work.
Their book recommends a 3-way approach - breathing, slow body movement and mindfulness. You might be interested in Palouse Mindfulness, a free, online version of the world-famous mindfulness program MBSR, validated by literally hundreds of studies, but I suggest starting with one of MBSR's most important exercises, the Body Scan (below).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4gZgnCy5ew&t=823s
You can learn tai chi exercise with one or two beginners' videos on YouTube.
If you go to Metapsychology, you can read a psychologist's review of the self-help book by Steve Ilardi, the therapist/researcher who headed the Univ of Kansas lifestyle-depression project ("a splendid book"). The book emphasizes the importance of things that take your mind of your troubles - being active and doing things you find fun and interesting. It has practical advice for things like insomnia and cautions - which are slight for most people but should be considered, e.g., what eye doctors say about light therapy, and dosages for fish oil capsules. Of course it also talks about exercise. The best is exercise you enjoy, with friends.
I can show you a list of treatments - self-help and regular treatments with office visits - and you can discuss these things with your parents or a school counselor. The list is in the answer below, under DEPRESSION TREATMENTS. It has information about self-help based on cognitive-behavioral therapy.
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150220041901AA0o9hk
