I've only started to regain my energy in recent times. I think a mix of proper antidepressant, antipsychotics, hormone levels and such, it is working. Before that for the longest time I had issues with getting up to do anything. On Risperidone it was debilitating. 16 hours a day sleeping, and the 8 hours I was awake I spent it in bed. It was bad.

Before all the illness set in and it was just mild-moderate depression and anxiety, I just worked 30-40 hours a week and went to school. It was not pleasant at times but I got up and did my thing every day. It took something incredible to make me call out. Short of the times I had H1N1 (2009) and pnuemonia (2014) and my supervisors and teachers said to just stay home and ride it out. Otherwise I was there cause I had to do it to survive. Was it pleasant? Nope. But it was necessary.

I'm in this tricky situation now where I am working on regaining some functional life but its taking a lot of time and patience with myself to get back to where I was before.

In short, I understand the energy, motivation and issues as such, Newtus.