What do you do mostly with your day?

I don't do much, i stay in a lot and keep busy around the house.. i have trouble leaving the house b/c of anxiety and ocd and depression. Its a bad combination. A lot of days i dont feel like doing anything but putting my headphones on.. i go out sometimes at night only, to the store

Sometimes I really struggle to manage my days. I volunteer two afternoons a week and even though sometimes I don't really want to go, I know that I will feel worse if I don't go and often when I make the effort it means I might have a nice conversation with someone.

I spend a lot of time on the internet and sometimes I journal which I've found really helpful at times. I try and meet someone socially at least once a week. If I get really desperate or low I ring the Samaritans. I also go to the supermarket for a quick shop most days.

Are you seeing any kind of therapist or in a mental health group? Sometimes that can be a lifeline.

I work from home part time. The rest of the day is spent doing housework, reading, watching tv, and walking the dog. The occasional trip to the grocery store and twice a month I have book club. I do enjoy getting out at least twice per week but I'm not one who likes a whole lot of interaction or face time with others so it's usually solitary activities.

do anyone of you struggle with depression

Yes. Some days and even weeks are worse than others. When it's like that, I just do my job and take care of the pets and daughter. All else falls by the wayside.

Work 10 hours. Exercise an hour. Spend time with family. Read. Get online. Go to bed.

I attend school and I volunteer at places. this summer is different from most of them because back then i would be packed with things but right now i'm more laid back and am ready to move on with my life. I am ready to think up good thoughts and stay on the road of positivity. If anything negative comes in, I'll just express it either out loud or via paper.

Right now I'm on vacation so I'm catching up on chores around the house and farm. Also doing a whole lot of nothing.

When not on vacation I work 8-10 hours a day, plus a one hour commute each way to and from work. I have animals I have to tend to before and after work. Most nights I'm so tired I eat some supper, watch a bit of TV and fall into bed.

most of the day i have a tendency to be alone and i think about things that i could have done, things i shouldn't have done, things others shouldn't have done to me and how i could have prevented it and everything like that. i also htink about why it's unfair how no one laughs when i do, why people seem to be bothered by my presence, how they don't smile back and all that stuff. I wish people could be more considerate. i just feel like people may not want to hear the same stuff over and over from me due to the following reasons: you're too negative, move on, you dwell on it too much, and the past cannot be changed. from my own perspective, i am not being negative. Just want to forget about my problems but first i have to address them head-on. I can't keep running away from the past. I can't escape from it, it won't do me any good in the long run.

but that's not hte only thing i do because i have places to go. sometimes even the most joking remark can be mean to me because of how i perceive it. i wish i could perceive it the way others do.

Yes, medications only helps so much. Cognitive behaviour therapy is most effective if I consistently practice it. I have not been consistent with CBT. I exercise more frequently than CBT.

Group therapy is painfully slow.

I will check the rest of the thread to see if there is any more addendums to the question above.

lay in bed, read, watch movies, try to eat 2 meals a day. sometimes i clean the house. occasionally i dog-sit or do housecleaning for others. i just try to make it thru another day.

I ignore that i actually exist and should be living a life so that i can come on here a lot of the time and chat to people for as long as they can take it. I know it's not what this place is about and that i shouldn't be using it as a crutch but when you have nothing it's nice to have something.

I need to be alone alot- i don't know if it's right or wrong to spend so much time alone, but because of head injuries and other injuries from car accidents and other head injuries, my cognitive abilities require me to stay at home. I do do housework and my 23 year old son came back to live here, I have some company through him.

I don't know if I'd say I struggle with depression anymore. I have depression, but it's pretty much under control with meds and therapy. There are times it still slips its leash though. Does that make sense?

I do have a dx of Depression Disorder, not elsewhere specified. That's on my post-visit summary. I have complained about irritability and PMS symptoms. It also, is that step down from Major Depressive Disorder, never really asked my Pdoc about it. It's something that isn't every single day, of every single year, basically.

When I am feeling low, ironically, it can affect me physically. Meaning, my body feels like it's walking through sludge.

But back to the OP, what do I do mostly with my day?

I'm on summer break and home with the kids. Each day, is impromptu. I don't like the crowds at the beach on the weekends. Crowds, I can handle, but it's the lack of parking, hard to find a spot to perch close enough to the ocean to keep a keen eye on the kids, etc.

This week was chaotic, because the holiday was tossed in. And today, would have been ideal, but my sons outing yesterday, turned into an overnight, and a day spent at his friend, so I needed to stay closer to home.

Housework, feed kids, dishes, deal with kids, go online, hopefully I will read some this summer.

During the school year, similar, but add send them to and from school, help with homework, work, kids' sports, keep up with friends and family.

That's the brunt of it.

I'm either sleeping, lying in bed, eating, watching tv, going online, watching downloaded stuff on my laptop or playing games on my laptop.

Yeah, I tend to be prone to most of those things-- and overdo it..

im to bored, I just got off the couch a few months back, I promised my T, I would not go back on it, so trying t find things to do is hard, Im trying to get into classes with therapy, but most of them r already started, volunteering is hard to find something Im interested in, so Im frustrated right now, any suggestions would help me to Its horribly hot and muggie!!!!!! so that is horrible. A lot of excuses right

I worked full time until 2009. At first, I found it very difficult to fill my days with things to do. Since not having a job, I had to push myself to get out and do things. I started working out at my local gym and taking college classes. Now I keep so busy that I wonder how I had the time to work.

You did not mention if you are seeing a counselor for some of your concerns. If not, I think this would be a great thing to do. I have seen a counselor for a couple of issues throughout my lifetime and found the sessions to be very helpful.

You may have to push yourself a little to find some activities that you'd enjoy doing.

take care!

I wash dishes, clean the floors, turn the tv on for back ground noise so my voices dont bother me much and either read or entertain myself on facebook, here or reading the news on internet.