Books for Trauma and Depression.
Sometimes reading a book is helpful. Sometimes just knowing that you are not alone helps, but some books also give you a new viewpoint, a technique for dealing with your problems, or a way to start new habits. Here are some of my favorite book recommendations.
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
Factfulness by Hans Rosling
Humankind by Rutger Bregman
How to Keep House While Drowning K.C. Davis
Your Head is a Houseboat by Campbell Walker. 
Healing trauma by Peter Levine
The Body keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk
The Transformation by Dr. James Gordon.
Moving Beyond Trauma by Ilene Smith
Getting Past Your Past by Francine Shapiro
Complex PTSD from Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker
Great Ted Talk About Depression.
This TED talk by K.C. Davis is called "How to Do Laundry When You Are Depressed". It's very real and down to earth. I highly recommend you watch it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1O_MjMRkPg
If You Need to Talk to Someone.
In the Us we have warmlines https://warmline.org/warmdir.html#directory if
you need someone to talk to and it's not an emergency.
and crisis lines if it is. https://www.apa.org/topics/crisis-hotlines
and prayer lines
Better Help is a paid service that has counseling that you
don't have to leave home for. https://www.betterhelp.com/
Another Writing Based Resource.
The Crappy Childhood Fairy recommends a technique called The Daily Practice and she has a short free course on how to do it here. The Daily Practice for Healing Childhood PTSD (crappychildhoodfairy.com) In my opinion, this is good for healing of any kind of trauma or stress and is not specific for childhood complex PTSD. It is just good for you to write it out and meditate/pray. Give it a try.
Setting Boundaries.
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Setting boundaries for yourself and for other people is vital to living a happy life. I have discovered recently a podcast called Beyond Bitchy which teaches you how to make/define boundaries and live a better life. Beyond Bitchy: Mastering the Art of Boundaries | Podcast with Vicki Tidwell Palmer, LCSW
I think every single human on the planet would benefit from listening to this. I am not exaggerating.
A great resource if binge eating is part of your life.
There is a therapist online called The Binge Eating Therapist. The Binge Eating Therapist - YouTube Her name is Sarah Dosanjh and she is a lovely person. She's written a book called "I Can't Stop Eating". Check out her book on Amazon and follow the link above. In one of her videos, she reads the entire book aloud because she wants people to get the help they need. Follow her channel and give her videos a like.
A Couple of Great Resources.
I have found a couple of really good resources on Youtube. The first one that I found is a Youtube channel called Therapy in a Nutshell. It's run by a real therapist, Emma McAdam. She teaches methods for dealing with anxiety and depression, as well as relationship skills in a series of videos. It is fantastic. Very helpful for anxiety. Here's a link. Therapy in a Nutshell - YouTube
The second one is about childhood PTSD and it's called The Crappy Childhood Fairy. It's run by Anna Runkle and she is not a therapist, but just a person who experienced some trauma in childhood and has learned to heal from it. Her link is here. Crappy Childhood Fairy - YouTube.
If you had any trauma in childhood or if you have any anxiety, these are definitely worth watching. I recommend them whole-heartedly.
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