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So depressed, please give me tips on how to cope?!

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AwFeebs · 23/01/2021 17:12

I am so depressed as of late, I've been diagnosed before and gone on antid's and I've managed to come through the other side. Should add I have another prescription now to pick up on Monday.

But the past few months it has come back with a vengeance. I'm not sleeping until 4 or 5 in the morning. I'm lounging around, can't remember the last time I got up had a shower and went for a walk.

My kids deserve so much better. Our home life is quite stressful due to DD and DS challenging behavior. DS has SEN. We are under early help scheme because I couldn't hide it any longer and had a mini breakdown at school.

I've not been out the house in days. I just can't bring myself to muster up the motivation.

How does everyone else manage to do these things when they really don't want to?

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Hairbrush767 · 23/01/2021 17:15

It is REALLY hard. When I was at my worst I wrote a daily checklist that had things like-
Get out of bed
Have breakfast
Have coffee
Get dressed
Get kids dressed
Go outside

Etc. Also I set 4 blocks of time where I was allowed to check my phone and not outwith that. And try to go for a daily 20min walk with music or a podcast if possible, eg no kids

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