I can’t believe how good I feel when I take a shower. I usually shy away from showers and now I see just how big a change it can make in my depression !! I feel bad because I don’t shower but I don’t know that it will make me feel better. Anybody else feel better when they take a shower?
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just use a lot of soap… I’m kidding…
I shower daily, I feel better, have to brush my teeth more though
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Somtimes I forget to shower for weeks on end and its always so refressing when I get to and I feel so healthy when i keep it regular. I get really dysphoric but I just showered after cheatig my way through it and it does feel so nice!!
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Since I didn’t have the stress of work, I took a shower every day.
When I’m stressed, I skip it to save time or something? I don’t know I think it’s a symptom.
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I shower pretty much every day and it does feel so much better. It feels cleansing. Some days I miss but for the most part I shower. I understand how hard this can be as there was a time I hardly showered as I was so depressed
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@Rayne wow, it is so nice to hear from you !! don’t be a stranger. I miss you on here!
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Bout to do that been a few days. Self care is a difficult thing for me at times
I know how you feel. Not sure if it’s the meds, but some days I’m like, okay…I have to take my clothes off…turn on the water…and jump in the shower!
“Like, what is this, man…A TRIATHLON???”
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Oh man I know what you mean! I feel so much better after a shower, I should shower more often. I’ve been showering every two days.
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Find showering very, very difficult.
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I never shower at my apartment but sometimes take a bath to read…but when I go to my parents house I often shower and brush my teeth. It’s hard. Back in college showering was my favorite hobby now it’s difficult but I do it.
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I can go without bath or shower for a week. Then I realize I need to shower. But whenI am depressed I can go 3 week without washing myself.
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I’m the opposite I can spend 5-6 hrs in the shower if left unattended.
I regularly spend a long time in the bath though, but not to that excess.
I try and shower most days but sometimes i find it difficult to do so.
I have problems with showering. I hate it more than anything else, but I force myself to do it. Not everyday though.
I fell asleep in the tub this morning. Had a 30 min bath because of that. The water was no longer hot.
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Yeah @jukebox, I do know how good it feels to take a shower, I love to shower right before bed, then I sleep way better and all through the night.
I also have a hard time sometimes, convincing myself to actually get in the shower, but it’s so refreshing afterwards.
Thanks Jukebox 
sorry to hear about your dad
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Yeah man showering is great… especially quick ones in luke-cold water during the summer time… cools you down just enough to let you dry before you start feeling strangled by the humidity.
You know when they first traveled through kansas they considered it an unliveable desert… it was a sea of dense grasses and unbearable humidity… but the water table and fertile lands wound up making it an ideal place to cultivate crops… before that it was sod houses… hah I gotta move to colorado. Cool breezes break the grip of the heat…