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Originally Posted by Scooter9
You could try to fake it until you make it so to speak.
Accept that your motivation is low now and just go through the motions of doing something just for the sake of it.
Keep doing it, stick with it using your intellect until one of two things happens: you finally finish what your started or you find a glimmer of motivation. Either way you win.
If you finish what your started that's a win because you accomplished something even though you weren't motivated.
If you find a glimmer of motivation that's also a win because it means you've found a way to recover at least a little motivation and might be able to find more if you keep going.
I've been depressed for years now and use this same technique. I haven't found motivation yet but I'm accomplishing things and hoping I'll find motivation some day.
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Thanks so much for this input, Scooter. you know, many years ago, when I was in the middle of a badass treatment-resistant depression, I knew I needed to keep writing, but it was no fun and I was again amotivational. I conducted a little experiment back then. I forced myself to write, at least a little, no matter how bad I felt. Then, I reviewed it later when I was more euthymic. what I learned was that the overall quality of writing carried out while depressed was really no different than the quality carried out when I was not really depressed. The big difference was, when I reviewed what I was doing while I was still depressed, I beleived that that writing totally sucked. It was only later that I could see it actually was not that much different than any of my other wiriting.
I thought this was very interesting. I canonot accurately judge the quality of my work during a depression episode. My judgment is markedly impaired.