Since I've realized how much less I've been singing since in the throes of my current depressive episode, which has been well over a year long, I'm really bothered by it.
I just added it to a list of reminders I'm making, that I plan to start referring to every day. "Have you sung today?" Because it's really like therapy for me.
As far as struggling to get started, as you describe, is there a particular place where you tend to feel particularly comfortable singing? Particular time of day it has brought you the most pleasure in the past? In the shower works really well for me. 
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.”
— Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28)
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