I agree. I can empathize with what Wildflower said about apathy. All I can tell myself is that these feelings will not last. So during apathetic phases, I try to create very concrete schedules (with very specific, broken down to-do's), and power through them to the best of my ability. It doesn't feel great, but at least when I'm out of the funk, I have less to panic about. I still haven't figured out how to get creative work done when I'm depressed/apathetic, but for now, taking care of the basics is the goal.