What to do When Your Depression Looks Like Laziness

By Jami Ingledue — BEHIND DOMESTIC LINES

It feels like the dumbest problem in the world.

You just can’t get yourself to DO anything. (Talk about first-world problems.)

There’s a certain kind of depression, sometimes called “High-Functioning Depression,” that seems fairly common among moms, and it’s especially challenging when we have our own businesses or work from home.

You’re not weepy or suicidal. You can get yourself out of bed in the morning and get the kids off to school. You feed the cats, you get dinner on the table, you do the bare minimum of what needs to be done for everyone else.

But besides that–you can’t get yourself to do anything.

What It Looks Like

Laura Camacho of the Glimmering podcast (www.glimmering.com) calls it “the total cessation of internal momentum.” Simple things you do every day become the “Impossible Task” that you just can’t face. You can’t find the motivation to do anything that will help you move forward, and it all feels so, so heavy.

When you do complete the most mundane task, it feels monumental, and you’re exhausted. You feel like you walk through the day wearing a 25-pound blanket, and you count the moments till you can sleep.