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Phoenix_1 · Jul 26, 2011, 09:16 AM

I get like this when I'm depressed. It's not that I don't WANT to shower, it's that I don't have the energy to do it. I think about showering, but I don't do it. I wash my face and I'll wash under arms with facecloth, like you say, and put on deodorant, but I just can't make myself get in the shower. I isolate at the same time so I don't have to go out and see anybody. If I DO have to go out, I'll wash my hair in the sink and wash with a washcloth sometimes, and sometimes I force myself to get a shower. When I go to the doctor I get a shower, but to go for groceries I won't.

I remember when I was young (I'm 57) my Mom would wash with a washcloth every day and bath only once a week. That's the way everybody did things then. They only got a bath on Saturday, to be clean to go to church.

Then, when I'm not depressed, am feeling good, I shower/bath every day.

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Originally Posted by alone/always

Hi, Im very new here, about 10 minutes new to be exact. have many, many issues, but this caught my eye. I thought this was my dirty little secret. I am not "afraid" to shower... I just don't want to. It's like a huge chore. I dred it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a funky, nasty person. If you knew me, you would never suspect this of me. But truth is, I do the under arms... more deoderent, and go. I may drag myself to the shower once or twice a week. the only time I look forward to a shower is on Sunday's when I wash my bed sheets. I sleep so good on freshly washed sheets in Gain, and a fresh shower.
I didn't used to be this way.......