[Icare dixit]

Do you ever feel like you prolong your depression by fighting it or even by easing it (side note: not the same. Easing it is more like co-opting it, somehow)?

I really doubt whether I should or when I should (or shouldn't) try to ease it. I spend so much valuable time being busy with that, that I seriously question/doubt whether it's worth it.

There is a time for everything, probably, but when is that?

[zepchic]

Originally Posted by Icare dixit

Do you ever feel like you prolong your depression by fighting it or even by easing it (side note: not the same. Easing it is more like co-opting it, somehow)?

I really doubt whether I should or when I should (or shouldn't) try to ease it. I spend so much valuable time being busy with that, that I seriously question/doubt whether it's worth it.

There is a time for everything, probably, but when is that?

I would think of easing depression as doing something like eating a bunch of chocolate and lounging around watching movies. I think this is probably counterproductive to alleviating depression. Except for the fact that chocolate releases seratonin.

[Icare dixit]

Fighting it can make it even worse. There is no shame in some isolation and distraction sometimes.

Right?

Can worse be better?

[Icare dixit]

Is anything to make it worse better because the depression will have a shorter duration being more severe?

So mostly giving in completely and not fighting or easing it. No distractions, just complete darkness and isolation. Is it worth it (if it works at all)? Are you more functional being completely and completely not functional, or semi-functional? Do we have that choice?

Maybe sounds a bit irrelevant or academic, but I think the question is of practical significance (of course if you are free to choice between the two in organising your work).