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LadyShadow · Apr 11, 2024 at 09:18 PM

It's hard not to beat yourself up @Rose76 when you already feel like you messed up. Be gentle with yourself for not sticking to the plans. Plans change all the time, and sometimes it's tough to stick to them.

My way of getting myself up and going is setting alarms, I set several during the day for all kinds of things. It gives me the motivation to get going. I know you came up with a plan with your psychiatrist, but you can also draw up one for yourself, that you'll be able to stick to.

This is a process. I spent almost 20 years living in my parent's house just existing. I never realized that I wasn't even living. Coming out of it took something very dramatic for me, but for you, it's about pulling yourself out of the darkness by achieving one small milestone a day that lead to bigger ones.