YES!!

May be that you have been depressed for such a long time that you have forgotten how to motivate yourself? Once in a very hard period of my life I hang up small pictures of the reward I had planned for myself when the semester ended ( boats, bicycles , sunshine, people cooking outside, landscapes, swims at the seaside etc). I hang these pictures at a place where nobody other then me would see them. On top of them I hang some inspiring words. It did inspire me to pull myself together.

Another technique that I used was to imagine that I was the leader of a group of youngsters (may be we can call them the inside opposite forces ). I "talked" to the youngsters in a mild voice: "Oh yes, I know you want to do other things, but now it is time for ..., come on now. We have to hurry".

Generally I use to work with myself from different corners. I set apart time for physical exercise and meditation/relaxation, four meals a day and so on.

The key to keep all this together is, for me, to make weekly plans that I try to follow. I try to make the plans realistic. If I can only do physical exercises for 10 minutes I don't plan to do it for 30 minutes. I try to not to allow myself to beat myself up if I have days when I feel unable to follow the weekly plan.

When really out of motivation, it can sometimes be rewarding to force oneself to what one has to do even if there is now motivation at all. Remember to take pauses in between if you want to make plans for yourself.

Somebody recommended this sheet for planning:

http://www.allaboutdepression.com/cy...ercise_6_2.pdf

Another helpful tool can be "Facing Us":
https://www.facingus.org/

Send my best wishes for you!

PS. I have found it helpful to work with one problem at the time, as well. That is to pick out the most important topic to work with, as an example social anxiety. When using a plan, it is easy to plan a time for thinking about how to solve it, set apart time to practice before going to meet others and so on. DS