Hi Rose76, I really feel for you in your situation, friend. It's very difficult. One positive, I guess you could say, is that you don't feel a great sadness but nevertheless, depression can obviously be a very tiring and exhausting, isolating condition, I know. 😔🙏

Are you looking for tips about dishes building up? Because, for me, having a nice clean kitchen actually makes me feel a bit better inside myself Rose76, maybe you too.

What I do for my dishes is, I wash my pot, pan or wok, and utensils, straight after the food is on the plate ready to eat - and you can wash dry and put away some of them as you're cooking too. If you use a chopping board, give it a clean straight after you've finished using it. Give the kitchen surfaces a wipe down as you go. Then after I've finished eating I wash/dry/put away the ones I was just eating off and wipe the stove etc., which has by then cooled down. All done. My approach means there's not a big Mt Everest of dishes waiting for you after you've enjoyed your meal.

I just make sure I do it so it doesn't trouble me later, which it will if I don't. I mean, I totally understand if you can't manage it Rose76. Depression effects people quite deeply and in differing ways, but I just thought I'd share that with you in the hopes it may help.

I'll leave it there, and I hope things change for you eventually Rose76. You can get through this great challenge you're facing little by little by little. I do believe that.

Sending prayers of inner peace.🙏🙏🙏