Does anybody else with depression WANT to do things but physically can’t?

Even when taking my medication consistently I struggle with this a little. Some days I just can’t bring myself to do things I enjoy at all. In my head I’ll be screaming “paint! Draw! Play a video game! Finish that show! Bake something! Play an instrument!” In reality I’ll be curled up in bed, stuck in my own mind. If I do get up it feels like my bed is drawing me back in like a magnet.

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PhoenixPhail · M

This happens with me all the time. There are SO many thing I want to do, and NEED to do. I'm behind in so many things. I just don't find the incentive or the energy to get moving.

Feel free to PM me if you'd care to chat.
Talking with a new person, someone who can identify and understand what this is, would be refreshing to me.

I wouldn't want it to be a conversation promoting gloom and doom, but one in which we might be able to come up with an antidote - something that might help even a little bit. Just knowing I'm not alone in this, helps me.

(hug)