I guess everybody reading this thread knows them: the days, weeks or even months when you experience no joy at all, only sadness and if something that could be interpreted as nice crosses your path, it only provokes anxiety and sends you off in a downward spiral again.

I have going through such a phase for a few months now. And before that, things weren't great either. It has been like this for seven years now. I have more or less given up. I don't believe there is room for improvement anymore, which is a point for ongoing discussion with my therapist and my general physician. Apparently I should somehow believe in the possibility to improve but I have been through so much that I will only believe in improvement once the it is there. It is eating up all my motivation to keep struggling. And i I stop fighting, I guess further downward is the only direction I will travel from now on.

I wonder what keeps people going on such occasions. My battery is definitely empty.