A lot of people that struggle with depression can sometimes feel really lazy. You’re fatigued, tired, don’t pick up on the facial expressions of other people around you, or you don’t have as many facial expressions yourself.
When we feel depressed, it’s pretty normal to have that hopeless and helpless feeling. To feel that the black cloud is just not moving away and “maybe I am just being lazy.”
Understanding Your Feelings of Guilt
Accompanying that thought of being lazy, is a sense of shame and guilt that can settle in too, which of course, is not helpful for depression.
In this article, I discuss the topic that you’re not being lazy as a choice. Your body is actually shutting you down when you feel depressed because it’s conserving your energy to survive. You or your fear about your partner who may think you’re lazy, can be a shameful and guilt-ridden thing. It’s also definitely not helping to think like this at all.
Have grace with yourself as your body tries to recover from feeling hopeless and helpless. Your body is struggling with a lack of sleep, fatigue, and all of those typical depression-like behaviors and feelings. It’s not your choice. You know this is not your choice as you know you will be the first one to be jumping up at a solution.
Have grace with yourself as you regain that energy to come out of that fight, flight, and freeze response, where you are trying to be open and curious about your world again. We can’t just move you from one to the other there because it takes time, consistency, help and support from others. Try to have grace and patience with yourself and you will get through this.
