Hoping to get caught up on chores, manage work, plan one social outing, and most importantly, play a lot of the Oblivion Remaster! I love that game so much, it’s probably had the biggest positive on my mental health in years.

I wish you the best of luck! My plan is to use these weekly threads for accountability. I think it will help me stay on track.

Really going to attempt to un-dysfunction my eating habits this weekend. Depression completely screwed up when I eat, how much I am eating, and what I eat such that I basically go days without eating anything but bread or cookies every 12 hours and then struggle with my mood and energy predictably crashing. I used to do just fine feeding myself but it’s like I somehow lost this skill.

Thank you for your kind words. I just started a new antidepressants, so I’m hopeful it’ll help.

I focus less on getting motivation and more on structuring my life so that I can work with less. I’ve accepted that I am always going to feel low energy but it’s a lot easier to manage when everything is a habit on autopilot and my life is super organized. So the more I can autopilot things I need to do due to a very structured routine, the easier it is to cope with low energy because I am making fewer decisions.

I’ve been stuck in a depressive episode ever since the election kicked my mental health into decline again. I have been trying to dig myself out of it all week. Going to spend the weekend trying to clean up the depression mess from months of rotting in my house and then try to get on top of eating enough food again. I’m trying to accept my limitations even though I often feel bad about myself for being able to do less than other people do. I’m so jealous of people who can just exist without every tiny chore and responsibility being an enormous uphill struggle.