Winter and lack of sunlight sure can make you feel sluggish or even depressed. I think it's natural to get less exercise in the winter, but the problem is you get sucked into inertia. The more you lay around, the more you feel like laying around. Especially with depression!

So I think you have to force yourself to get up and out if you can, even if you don't feel like it. Even if all you do is walk around the block, then come home and lay down -- at least you've done something. I don't know how bad your depression is ... maybe it's hard to even take a shower. But just try to do one thing a day.

Remember the law of inertia: a body at rest tends to stay at rest, a body in motion tends to stay in motion.

Depression steals motivation, so I know how hard it can be to do ANYTHING, but we have to fight it as much as possible.

Are you doing anything like therapy or meds?

What ether had to say was great! I'm in that same slump. Good therapy and the right meds do help, just as exercise, eating right and getting out, if only to the mailbox.

If you have depression already, I would talk to a counselor/psychiatrist to see what their tips are. Maybe go where there is alot of sunlight- helps me! Up your meds! GOOD LUCK!

im hopefully seeing a shrink soon but to be honest im a bit skeptical of them the last one i saw pretty much blamed my family for my problems and said im just a product of my environment :| the past years been really hard but ive just given up lately, im on 20mg citralopram at the moment it helps when i look after myself but when i feel like this it doesnt really do much to help

I have been going through something similar. Winter really affects me big time. What helps some is to go out for a walk each day. It's cold, but I feel so much better after I do it. If you don't want to go out in the cold you should find something to do around the house. Anything. Just start small. Usually we feel better when we accomplish something.

im kind of slowly getting back into a routine i think id be alot worse of if i didnt have my dog to motivate me to actually leave the house thank you all very much for your advice it really did help

You should be able to boost your medication dose up. I was on 40 mg of citalopram. You can always go back down when things are going better for you.