First off update your mood because it says ok and this truly isn't ok. As far as depression goes no one understands better than another depression victim that it goes in cycles. What if any medication are you on? Struggle through it, I'd suggest my treatment which is several hours in a natural hot springs, nope not a spa treatment but Mother Natures own. While there ground yourself emotionally yep bare feet to the forest soil

1. Shower.
2. Get dressed
3. Inform a Doctor of what you have posted.

To be more clear .. no one is going to break into your house and drag you into the shower. It will be you and only you .... sooner or later. It IS coming, ... that shower. May as well go on and do it now. Then ... get dressed. You will feel MUCH better. I PROMISE.

Tell yourself you only have to do one thing. Tell yourself you don't have to shower, you just have to get out of bed. Then tell yourself you don't have to put on clothes, you just have to shower. Then tell yourself you don't have to eat, just put on clothes. Then keep going until you've gotten through the day. Hope this helps, as I used it when I was feeling similar to you. Praying for you.

Don't have the battle. What would cave woman have done?

She would have lain in her furs as long as she bloody well liked. And her body would have restored itself. And there wouldn't have been any explanations. And there wouldn't have been any judgements. She would've stank. so what? Who's around to smell her?

Only other stinky cave people.

Let yourself be what you are. Find out what it is to be a human, by letting yourself be one. Travel on this journey and take your notebook. Just be. Let yourself be.

Blueviolin nailed it. Doing things this way will help.

I am so sorry you feel so depressed and find it hard to move. I have experience with this and I do one step at a time. Sometimes the bed is all I want I convince myself to get up, get dressed, eat something, take a ride in the car. If I need to go home I do. How are you feeling today?

No she didn't obeying other people's rules is what gives us depression, not cures it. We have to learn our own enervy needs to survive. The op may be 3 hrs off cracking the fundamental cause of her depression but you want her out of bed to. . . To what? To suit some Calvinist sense of self flagellation??

Op take 2 weeks in bed. Enjoy. This is how it used to be done.

@bridgie, no, the cave woman would not have "lain in her furs as long as she bloody well liked." She would most likely be ostracized by her clan because she was not contributing to the community. She was not out foraging for food to ensure the survival of her clan.

@Cora_Belle I agree with you. I also think it's dangerous to tell someone who's depressed to just basically let it overcome them by laying in bed and not at least trying to sit up or move around. I know that my darkest thoughts hit me when I'm laying in bed. @flamingorose just be safe and message me if you ever want to talk.

Hope your reading today or up and at umm.....Know what, we all love you!!!! that's a written fact from each response above. I can identify with that pain and not pretty. Babies crawl before they walk one-day-at a time. Don't live in the passed nor where your suppose to be in the future, one day at a time. God isn't like us, pray for his mercies, relief, A taste of goodness and self confidence to refresh you. Put your faith and believe in him. Then take your new clean beginning and leave the rest behind. Your needed somewhere so going and get ready. I know it works and hope this will help.
DaAngel

I agree that you need to fight this urge to stay on bed. Although it's not easy, which I know from experience. Do you have a tablet or laptop you can bring to bed with you? I do that a lot with my tablet. My husband used to bribe me with coffee from Starbucks to get me out of bed and out of the house. Even if I went right back to bed after getting the coffee it was at least a start. Don't be too hard on yourself. Since you're depressed enough to be in bed I'm guessing you're not being very nice to yourself about it.

Hi There, I think striking your own balance is key along with some investigation. I suffer from depression even when everything is going good and there is no reason for feeling down. "Why" can feel like an impossible cycle. 1. It is important to recognize and honor how you are feeling while giving your body what it needs until how you are feeling interferes with, well, how you are feeling about you. 2. When you have no reason to be cycling though depression or sadness look into other factors that could be causing it: diet (and foods that contain msg), vitamin deficiency and niacin, dehydration, hormone balance and thyroid function, stress managment, unresolved issues that were put on the back burner, or spending time with people that have a negative outlook on a regular basis. I had a period where I did not leave my home for 2 weeks because I felt so low. Baby steps were key to getting out of it. What I learned though is that it became harder to take care of myself the longer I waited and now I try to pick at least one thing a day for self care. When I feel most resistant to self care it is a clue for me that I am going into another cycle and self care steps help me from going to far in.

Nothingness has been with us our whole existence. Our society has made us believe with success in life with relationships ,job, being a respectable citizen we'll fill our emptiness. But that immense emptiness can only be filled with love. Not dependent on anyone's love but only urs. To love is to love without anything in return.when u give ur lunch to a starving man, when u see a stray dog and feed it, when u water a flower that is love.that is your beautiful​ gift to mankind ur love. If u live ur life full of love, that fullness that love brings can fill the deepest of the deepest oceans.