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Originally Posted by Kelly68
This might be a basic answer, and not helpful. How about instead of getting lost in the pleasures, and finding it hard to do the work you need to do, think of the taking care of yourself or your reading a book or whatever you need to do, as the reward after you've done a bit of what's needed.
It's not like you have to set a timer, do what's needed, then reward... but basically, accomplish a few things that you know have to be done today, then lay down and read a book or watch a video.
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Thanks for the input. Don't get me wrong please, I'll try to explain below what the problem is. The issue is that the whole problem started with how on most days I didn't have energy/felt too low to do anything - other than trying to process my issues/read psychology articles to help the processing, and then doing the work at night, because I'd feel a bit better by the late evening. So I thought if I first do something that I used to enjoy, it would help with having more energy, but then I found this was causing the above problem. Some emotional regulation problem, I figure. So then I stopped doing anything enjoyable again. I haven't done any of these enjoyable things for a while now. So, same problem as before. I sometimes have good days when I can work in the afternoon now, so there is improvement, but overall I still have to get better. And for that, if I could've simply done it the way you suggest it done I would've done so, and that's how I used to do it like everyone who's functional and has a normal life does it. I do find it's an extra issue that normal life strategies do not work with severe enough depression or whatever shutdown I've got. I'm open to hearing about options that go beyond normal life strategies.