[Jenny R]

The answer for me is not much. I have a lot to do for both work, home and exercise and I do so little. I want to but I feel stuck. Before I know it the day is over. I feel relief that I can start over tomorrow but nothing changes.

I am only mildly depressed. I got up, hung around the house, took a nap, worked a little, and went to lunch with my husband. Now I need to work again or do something and I am busy watching tv. I keep the house clean because it is easy and important to me. Clutter, dishes and things strewn about look wrong to me and I feel better in a clean house.

I need to exercise to feel better but I am a little tired and a little stuck.

I am all about inertia and momentum. Often (but not always) once I get going and keep going. Then I stop and the inertia kicks in. That's where I am now.

How do you do it when you are depressed?

[Deeplyhurt77]

Sounds like you are more active than me. I am forced to get up to care for my elderly mom. After she is dressed in too take a nap then may/may not eat. But do bond with her watching soaps. Then another nap or go outside and lay in my sun chair then go in to lay down
. May/may not make supper or do laundry from weeks ago. I have an adult coloring book, read books,do word searches,play with pug,watch TV and see my therapist once a week and have been going to the gym for an hour. I've been seeing my psychiatrist every other week because of suicidal ideation.

[hopeless2015]

I work when I'm well enough, I have intermittent fmla to cover my time off for now, hopefully I don't use up all my time. When I'm too sick I don't leave my bedroom...just spent the last two days in bed. I don't keep a very clean house unfortunately and it does add to my depression...no one else here cleans either. When I'm well I work and come home and cook supper and clean up dishes and watch TV until bed then start over the next day. I keep up laundry and that's about it. My coping skills need a lot of work. Hugs

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[RedStorms]

I sit in bed or play videogames... all day.

[handheart]

ou must work with your mind also and you must find things that makes you to feel better .Read and watch motivation online try meditation try hypnose as this will attract also good things in your life and it will make you to feel better

i don't work, and i'm agoraphobic

so my day is something like eat breakfast at some stupid early time because i didn't sleep the night before, check my emails and play my trivia challenge (i always do my trivia challenge, i love trivia), come on here

choose a movie to watch in the afternoon (or if i have some tv to catch up on from the night before, watch that)
eat dinner

,listen to music while messing about onn the computer

read

spend the night feeling anxious, worthless, suicidal, and just ashamed of myself

not sleep the entire night

start again the following day

(exceptions being if i need to order something online, or put something away, shower, something like that)

the little things

[kal1995]

I go to school online which is both a godsend - no need to shower, dress, or get out of bed - but also helps feed my depression because well...no need to shower, dress, or get out of bed. And it keeps me in the house and no social interaction and all that.

I usually roll out of bed about noon after waking up every 30 minutes since 9am just because I can't bring myself to get up. Then I'll usually slump over to the couch and rotate between video games and TV until I can't hang with the hunger anymore, make enough food to satisfy and continue.

At some point I'll think about doing homework, maybe even open my laptop but immediately get overwhelmed and go back to TV.

Repeat until about midnight, when I'll actually start doing some work.

Bedtime whenever I finally feel tired.

If I'm having a *really* good day I'll shower, go to the gym, or clean. But those are few and far between these days.

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[Fuzzybear]

Eat berries and bugs

[Humpty Dumpty]

I go into work in the afternoons and work until the wee hours of the morning. When I'm not at work I sleep, watch TV, and play video games. Pretty pathetic. Whenever I have to go do errands it takes A LOT out of me. I have to go home and rest after doing just a few things.