Laziness?

Have any of y’all out there just felt like you have no desire to do anything? You know what you should do as far as walking and doing community work and just so many things that you can do to help yourself yet you sit at home and analyze everything. I even analyze my feelings like do I want to sit here and do anything? do I just want to sit here and just give into these feelings? You just don’t have the motivation and then you feel so much guilt and regret for not trying. It’s like you know you feel better when you get out, but you just don’t have the get up and go to get out. It’s hard for me to make myself do the things I should. I know part of it is depression, but can OCD do this to you also or am I just plain lazy? I don’t want to be lazy. I don’t have that desire to be lazy. I want to feel energetic. I want to get out of this being stuck rut. I’ve been in it way too long. I do go to the gym and go out with my girls and go to church and go to different activities that they have but when I’m at home I just don’t want to do the things I should do. A lot of things bother me and that is always on my mind.

JustRell215

Date posted: 22h

I kinda have this but it's because I'm literally exhausted all the time from my OCD. Plus to add that I have a physical job, I just don't feel like doing anything haha. What I do is try to break up my errands or whatever to try to get stuff done so im not so overwhelmed.

CrappiePappy

Date posted: 22h

Yes, I’ve had this for the last couple of months. I noticed that my anxiety was starting to diminish, but I didn’t have the energy and motivation that I usually do.

Anonymous

Date posted: 21h

I have to break all my tasks down

Kevin V

Date posted: 21h

Yeah, the worse my OCD gets, the less motivation I have to do things. It's really sad, because it's not like I don't want to do things at all, it's just difficult to do most things, aside from the basic stuff and listening to music.

Cher54

Date posted: 19h

@Kevin V Yes, mine is worse too. And I am also retired, so there’s that. I really don’t have any hobbies like some people do. I give in to my depression and my lack of motivation. It’s like I don’t have any desire to clean out my cabinets and clean my commodes and all of that stuff, now don’t get me wrong. I do clean my commodes lol And one thing that bothers me is my ocd is so bad when I’m cleaning and that’s another thing that makes me put it off. I have that down feeling a lot. I can’t take antidepressants which I need. I’ve tried a zillion of them and my body just can’t handle it. But like you, I want to do it in my brain, but my body just don’t want to cooperate. I just don’t enjoy life like I should. Something happened in 2016 which I’m not going to get into it here because it’s too long, but it has really affected me and I know I can’t change it. It took away my joy and I have cried ever since. I was happy before all that happened. Anyway, the not doing makes me feel bad for not doing, if that makes sense. But at the time you just don’t care. I do however, have some good days and when I do, I’m like wow thank you Lord that I’m having this good day! I am at home too much and I think too much and it’s hard to get out of that rut.

Kevin V

Date posted: 19h

@Cher54 Yeah, the feeling of "getting stuck" is something I have to contend with. It's a big part of the reason why I've basically wasted over 3 years of my life now, I just can't get enough "momentum" to get rolling again. I'm "only" 24, so I still have some time to correct my course in life, but it feels so difficult to even start. It's a bit of a shame, really. It almost feels like I'm starting from nothing, in a way.

Cher54

Date posted: 17h

@Kevin V I understand. The last 10 of mine hasn’t been good except when I was keeping the grandkids and that kept me going and gave me purpose. But now they are older and I don’t keep them every day like I used to. But I remember having intrusive thoughts about them when they were little, but that went away thank goodness. But I still have intrusive thoughts that just pop up not about them but other things. I wish 1000 times over that I didn’t go through this and it makes me so sad. I wished I could do a lot of things over in my life without having the mental issues of course. But like you say, you are young. I don’t know if you are seeing anyone or not, but that would probably be something you might want to check into. I’ve been to professionals before but I didn’t really get into the OCD part of washing the hands excessively and all of that. It was mostly the thoughts. But one of the council one of them gave me was to say stop when you have those thoughts but that did not help me. You can say stop all you want in your head and the OCD just keeps going. I think the ERP therapy would be the best. I haven’t had that, but I think it would be good. Just don’t give up give in or give out. Also depression just sucks the life out of you. It seems you have that as well. I think OCD and depression and anxiety all go together. I pray a lot about this and it is helpful. We are supposed to give all our anxieties to God and just leave them there, but man that’s hard to do. But when I do that, it does work! I need a big dose of self discipline! I will pray for you and everybody that is on this forum. ❤️🙏🏻

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