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Any advice on how to break the "I can't do anything" loop? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/depression_now@lemmy.world
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I've recently found myself in a loop of not being able to do anything productive, feeling bad because of it, and then not being to able to do anything productive because I feel awful about not being productive. Any advice on how I can stop that?

I need to get insured, so that I can get treatment and maybe some meds (almost certainly some meds), but I'm too depressed to go to the proper office and talk to a clerk and then I have to go to the doctor and book a visit and then I have to go to that visit and wait in line, and the very prospect of doing that makes me more depressed. So I'm feeling too depressed to get the motivation to get treatment for my depression.

Too much IRL talking to too many IRL people. I'm stressed just thinking about it. I feel bad for writing this very post, because I feel like I'm procrastinating and waiving responsibility. I even feel bad about using the word "depression" for what I am going through, even though I've been officially diagnosed for over a decade now.

Advice would be appreciated.

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[–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

I like your flow chart. I chart things sometimes to try and help me visualize stuff. But of all the different things you could try, the different things you could research or perspectives you could have, every single one of them converge to a single point.

Taking action.

Theres no magic secret to this. You can try thinking about it in different ways (is waiting in line at the clinic better or worse than slowly dying a very painful death cuz i never went to the doctor?) or different motivations you could try to create (i should practice self-love by taking care of myself medically) or plenty of other strategies. It all eventually boils down to taking action. And there is no way to bypass this.

Personally I like to think about the reason WHY im doing something. Im not trying to get insured cuz it'll make me money, or that it's easy or fun, im doing it because I've decided that my mental health is in need of some help, and regardless of any obstacle that might pop up along the way, I WILL see it done. Take those little wins and give yourself some grace to make mistakes.

Good luck friend, hope any of that helped.

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