Tips to help me get motivated

[hatemyselfrightnow]

I suffer with mental health issues, including EUPD/BPD, anxiety and OCD, and some complex trauma issues, which can make motivation hard at the best of times. Over lockdown this has been bad and I have had some bad crashes. I am still finding it hard to have much interest in doing things which I normally enjoy and my sleep is gone to pot. I am speaking to a therapist weekly over the phone and they have been good helping me with the crisises but the day to day stuff am finding very tricky. I do struggle with binge eating or not eating at all and I am sick of feeling like this.

Any tips on getting myself to start giving a crap about things? My house is a mess, whcih can make me feel worse, and I have much I need to do but am just struggling and want to sleep all the time.

I write 'to do' lists. I find that writing everything down means I don't forget and I have the satisfaction of crossing things off and I can see what progress I have made.

I tend to break down tasks into smaller chunks eg

1. dismantle playhouse In the garden
2. take playhouse to the top

@purpledagger

I write 'to do' lists. I find that writing everything down means I don't forget and I have the satisfaction of crossing things off and I can see what progress I have made.

I tend to break down tasks into smaller chunks eg

1. dismantle playhouse In the garden
2. take playhouse to the top

Thank you- I do the lists but maybe like you I need to do the breaking things into smaller chunks. I will try that. thank you

My sleeping pattern is shite but what I found recently that works is deciding on a time to go up to bed, say 11:30, then once I’m in bed it’s no phone and book only. I find my brain turns off more quickly while reading and I’m more likely to just drift off to sleep, whereas staring at a phone screen sometimes means I end up still awake at 2am.

You have to be disciplined though. Make yourself go up, don’t just think “in a minute”.

I am aware of the hypocrisy of me posting this at 1am