Most days are still painstakingly absent of light for me. Even when I find my moments of activity or happiness, I actively look for the next down period. I’ve been reading self-help like a fiend, trying to find alternatives to pull myself out of this pit I’m in, but I cannot find the strength. I know one of the keys is going to be routine and getting back into an established routine, but I break routine as fast as I make them.
I have to talk myself out of bed each morning to drive my youngest to school. Most days I succeed. I get up, brush teeth and hair, cover up (not always getting out of PJs) put on the coffee and empty the dishwasher. Get the boy to school. Some days I even get a bra on. This week I resolved I would set the alarm for earlier than I need to get up so that I made sure I also got dressed.
I can go days without taking a shower, and a week without washing hair. Since I don’t move or do much, it’s not hard to forget I should do it. It’s fallen out of my routine. I don’t shower for myself, I shower if I need to be presentable.
I don’t truly understand how I have motivated myself in the past to move forward from difficulty. Either I thought or believed there was something better on the horizon, or felt I had no alternative but acceptance.
I do not have either of those two feelings right now.
This morning I woke about an hour early and started to obsess over Tony. I tried mind control “if you keep thinking about this, you should get up and exercise instead!” I cannot even actively control my obsessive thoughts.
Strangely enough, I don’t generally nap. But, if I could, I sleep a straight 10-12 hours before feeling actually rested. Is it possible anyone really needs this much sleep?
I’m a seesaw. One moment moving up and feeling the air on my face and a (very small) burst of positivity or energy, and the next moment not just coming down but literally crashing into the ground hard. As if the weight of the world is on my shoulders and I cannot lift, or even try to lift.
My son had his pull up bar out the other night and I jokingly gave it a shot. The way I feel each day is similar to approaching and attempting that pull up bar – I raise my arms, pull myself up, and I am dead weight. No strength, no movement, just nothing. I literally could not even try, my weight was just too much, my muscles evaporated.
I have seen other people motivate themselves forward and I understand the concept of changing a small, yet important, thing to add up to bigger changes – but I don’t do it.
If there was such a thing as manic-depressive by the hour, I feel like that’s me.
Lady I feel this so hard. I am trying so hard to get a job…. but I’m exhausted always. Always. I want to be energetic but I’m not.
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Encourage. Even knowing I’m not alone helps me. Get up and go! Everyday. One thing. You can do it
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So much of it’s just in my head. I have a relay good support network and I just get stuck in my own head
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It takes time to emerge from a low point like you are in. I have had times where just getting dressed is exhausting. I get it. The winter season isn’t helping you either. No advice, just empathy
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You have been through so much in the past year, physically too. It’s good to know something needs to change but also not to be too hard on yourself. One thing at a time.
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This is your season to heal…your body and mind needs this after everything you’ve been through. Definitely use the time to work on “you”…and don’t be too hard on yourself. A job will come when its ready to come. xx
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Thanks love ❤️
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