Choosing a reporting form.

Which form of reporting would you use here and why?

On the phone.

Tim: How are you?
Jake: I'm really depressed.

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Later:

Tim (to a friend): Jake called this morning. He's really depressed/He says he's really depressed.

The trick?

Anonymous

Which form of reporting would you use here and why?

I would say: "Jake called this morning and said he's feeling great. That cocaine he got is the best he's ever found so far. We're gonna sell it in Miami..."
Note: the fact he was depressed turned out to be a joke and so there's no reason to mention that.

Moral: how do I know what I would choose if I don't even know what the entire conversation was like and I have no context? There are lots of ways to report the fact he was depressed, I have no reason to choose one instead of another.

<There are lots of ways to report the fact he was depressed,>
 
Cannyou give us examples of a few of them?

<I have no reason to choose one instead of another.>

OK, thanks.

I see only two main ways there. i.e. one using verbs of saying and the others are examples of reported events.