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So for years I've been saying, "I have depressive symptoms but not actual Depression." Turns out you can only have depressive symptoms for so long before you Actually Have Depression!
It's not that bad. It's not like I'm sitting in my bedroom all day with the curtains drawn while flies collect in the piles of unkempt garbage on the floor. I go to work, I eat, I shower, I basically function. I'm now trying to figure out in my head whether or not I should play Anti-Depressant Roulette or if I should just stick with some CBT therapy.
But the toll my depression takes on my writing is high. It's hard for me to even open up a word document some days. And sustaining any kind of progress on a novel is also really hard, which is why I posted in the Writing Buddies & Mentors forum asking for butt-kickers, because if I have people bugging me to do something, I'm far more likely to actually do it rather than just let it languish and procrastinate eternally. NaNoWriMo is basically the only time of year when I write continuously for a month, because there are so many other people doing it that *someone* is bound to message me once a day and go, "Why haven't you written yet!? What's going on in your story? What did you write about today?"
Does anyone else live with depression and also write? Care to fill me on some just-sit-down-and-do-it techniques that work for you? (Beyond, you know, just sitting down and doing it.)
It's not that bad. It's not like I'm sitting in my bedroom all day with the curtains drawn while flies collect in the piles of unkempt garbage on the floor. I go to work, I eat, I shower, I basically function. I'm now trying to figure out in my head whether or not I should play Anti-Depressant Roulette or if I should just stick with some CBT therapy.
But the toll my depression takes on my writing is high. It's hard for me to even open up a word document some days. And sustaining any kind of progress on a novel is also really hard, which is why I posted in the Writing Buddies & Mentors forum asking for butt-kickers, because if I have people bugging me to do something, I'm far more likely to actually do it rather than just let it languish and procrastinate eternally. NaNoWriMo is basically the only time of year when I write continuously for a month, because there are so many other people doing it that *someone* is bound to message me once a day and go, "Why haven't you written yet!? What's going on in your story? What did you write about today?"
Does anyone else live with depression and also write? Care to fill me on some just-sit-down-and-do-it techniques that work for you? (Beyond, you know, just sitting down and doing it.)