The amount of things I have to get done today is making me want to cry.

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Had a hard week with starting back at college as an adult student on an access course and trying to manage keeping our home clean & in order. I'm diagnosed with depression & ocd so that's extra helpful.

Today's list:
Get out of bed (hasn't happened yet)
Eat something & take meds
Brush teeth (sounds ridiculous but it's hard to do when you're in a depressive state)
Put wash on
Hoover
Clean surfaces & kitchen
Put laundry away
Shower
Muster up some energy to study and go out tonight with my partner.
Oh and go food shopping.

I just want to crawl into a hole and die right now.

I empathise I have got so much to do these next couple of weeks I dont know how I am going to fit it in and the more I think about it the more anxious I feel about it.

Hope you have made some progress with your to do list.

Reported those posts.

No-one should have their mental health difficulties diminished. Ever.

Come back to MN whenever you need a boost OP! The majority of us are friendly and will give you a boost

@PlinkPlink Thank you! Appeal is done now (thank Christ) and I will be posting it first thing tomorrow, recorded delivery because the DWP have a tendency to 'not receive' purposely lose things you send them!

Shower up next and to sort laundry out and put another wash in.

So glad your appeal is done and off your mind, you should be really proud of yourself. It's bloody hard when you wake up feeling like you did today so you've achieved minor miracles all things considered

Well done! Bloody well done.

And thank you @MNHQ for deleting those posts.

well done threeam you've done amazing today

I would group a lot of those tasks together rather than visualising it as a big long list as that surely makes it feel bigger and more insurmountable.

So I would group the following as one task called "Getting myself ready":

Get out of bed
Eat something & take meds
Shower
Brush teeth

If there aren't too many dishes from the day before I would incorporate the kitchen clean into the breakfast part of that. I would set a rough time goal for getting this stuff done by so that getting ready doesn't feel like this big task that will drag on for hours. e.g. 30-40 mins for the whole "getting ready" routine. And make it a routine that you do on autopilot. Ideally find something you love to eat and drink for breakfast that you can look forward to every day. In my case it's Nutella on toast and a coffee. Don't worry about how healthy the breakfast is, personally I think it's more important to start the day happy/satisfied than crossing off some kind of diet goal! I think the French and the Dutch agree with their chocolatey breakfasts and they're a fairly healthy bunch aren't they?!

Then there's the laundry job and once you're ready and dressed etc you will generally feel way more ready to tackle all these little jobs!

Put wash on
Put laundry away

Then there's your other cleaning jobs:
Hoover
Clean surfaces & kitchen

I would put a 20- 30 min music playlist on and do as much as I could in that time.

In total by this point you've spent about 1hr or so doing these tasks. Time to have a cuppa and our your feet up for a bit. Go on Mumsnet for a bit, whatever. You've then got hours and hours left in the day to do studying, pop out for the food shop, etc. Or just to chill out.

If the thought of going out in the evening drains you I would try and make some kind of compromise arrangement , so not cancelling it but maybe getting your partner to come and have a movie night with you at home instead.

That's how I'd tackle this lot anyway, I understand if that approach doesn't work for everyone. Personally I think the "getting ready" part is the most crucial as you're then set up for the entire day

Well done! You can tick off your day as a good one.

Well done!