No motivation — feel like I'm going down a black hole

Count me in for a motivation group like that. (Accountability partners.) Personally, I do better when I have to account to someone. : )

I would like to be in the Motivation Group, also. I decided last week I wold walk around the block every day, watch 3 funny YouTube, and meditate for 10-15 minutes. It's not happening. I very much want to be in a situation where I'm accountable about what I want to do. Should we use emails, texts, this site or IM? Let's exchange something so we can contact each other. This is a great idea.

@mscosette Your thoughts are very insightful. It can be a vicious negative cycle or one that almost feels virtuous when you fight it off even for a day. It is so easy to let the fog envelope you and become dark clouds as opposed to wispy fog. But, if you push it away in thought or activity for any amount of time, it is definitely a small victory. As one of my better bosses always said, you can only eat an elephant one bite at a time.

True for me on SSD Disability (for depression) - I need to get a PT job to supplement what I get. Thank Goodness I get enough for most basic expenses but if a dental bill or something else comes in, I'm strapped. btw, happy to report I just pushed myself to get fully dressed and to walk around the block. It was def!!! worth it - the sunshine woke me up, felt good, I saw that my car wasn't covered with snow from the snow storm, and spoke to a neighbor briefly. Just that simple thing helped, that seemed so hard before, walk around the block.

Those are my goals, too - walk around the block every day, watch comedy on youtube and meditate 10 minutes or more. Feel free to send me a private message on Connect if you want to get in touch with me. Or here!

Feel free to private message me on Connect if you'd like to get in touch with me.

Let's try and do this.

Join.

Hi @stressedmesseddepressed -- Please note that I removed your personal email address from your message above. We recommend using the private message function to share personal contact information. We don’t want you to get unwanted spam from posting your email on a public forum like Connect.

@callalily74 -- As I mentioned to @stressedmesseddepressed, I removed your personal email address from your message just to protect you from unwanted spam from posting it here. We'd recommend using the private messaging (PM) function here on Connect.

To use the PM function on Connect, click on your profile picture (the one you chose when you set up your profile and appears in a circle beside your posts), you will be taken to a screen with your name, username and profile picture. Right under your name and username, you will see "send private message." Click on that, and it will open a private message screen for you. You can have a conversation with a whole group of people via private messaging, and it works very well -- I use it frequently.

The idea for the motivation group is fabulous.Go for it!

Thank you very much! I didn't know about the IM here and thank you for the directions!