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Super Unmotivated

JMEL86
JMEL86

When any of you are in a bad episode of GAD, are you able to function? Some days I can get up and do everything on my list, and other days, like today, I just lay in bed watching tv. I can't seem to get any desire to do anything. Is it me and I'm just lazy or is it the anxiety and depression? I just need to know I'm not alone in this. Background: I'm on antidepressant and on a Benzo for short term use until this episode passes (its been two months already). I go to therapy and see a psychiatrist reguarly. Just wondering if anyone else feels like they are super unmotivated?

Community LeaderMid
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Understanding the depression - lack of motivation, and just getting up taking the first step and then the next step will help you feel the energy.

I call it doing anxiety.

Best wishes.
hyperpgal
hyperpgal
yes---I worked this week...dragged myself out of bed...am so stressed--so am planning to stay in bed and power watch Ratched this weekend....gonna turn off my phones and hide. that's what i can deal with right now!
arfie
arfie
You are most definitely not alone, JMel. Depression is not big in my personal psychobaggage car, but the ups and downs of anxiety and all its physical side effects make a consistent energy level difficult in the extreme.

Be gentle with yourself and patient with the process. The best we can do is our honest best with what life gave us to work with.
JMEL86
JMEL86
arfie, Thanks for this reply. I have never had depression. Always only had anxiety until the last few years. I began having these episodes of extreme GAD and then depression would come with that I believe. Makes me feel better that I am not alone in this world, and that there are many others feeling what I feel.
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