I have been having really bad motivational problems lately. My husband wants me to go biking with him and I have fun doing it, but he always has to force me to go.
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Same…
I think it comes from a combination of my negative symptoms and my depression.
But sometimes, I do force myself to finish things despite not wanting to get up from bed. It’s difficult at first, but they say that doing that often will get you back on your feet. Now, I don’t know if this is true but it’s worth a try.
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It is more of a fitness thing for him. He wants me to be fit and healthy and I am just trying to brush my teeth
Same, I know I should be healthier and more active. I just can’t get off the damn couch. I’ve even been having physiological issues involving bad posture that is causing me pain. This doesn’t even provide the needed motivation to get up and work on my posture like my physical therapist said I should. I even have simple clear cut exercises to do, provably 10 mins a day and not very tiring…I just can’t get the process started each day.
I can’t explain to him what I am going through because I have problems organizing my thoughts.
I suffer with motivation and energy issues too. I have hypothyroid which causes lethargy and my AP also makes me tired. I am waiting for my new dose of thyroid med to kick in and, hopefully, give me more energy. I don’t know how much that would help the motivation or not. Hopefully, it would. Energy and motivation are tied together for me.
Brushing your teeth is as important as fitness I think. Try to do what you can do.
I think that’s awful, when you KNOW you like doing something and feel better after doing it but you still for no discernible reason don’t want to do it. Lack of motivation sucks.
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Kind of a late reply, but I just had to respond.
I think this is what normal people don’t understand about our motivation issues. It’s not that we don’t WANT to do something. Our motivation problems show up even when we really DO want to do something…we just can’t (for some unknown reason). They think we’re lazy, when we really aren’t.
Like right now, I want to get up and vacuum or gather the trash in the kitchen. But because I’ve thought about these things and that I want to get up to do them, I can’t find the mechanism in my brain that turns that thought and desire into action. And so I sit.
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Yeah my mom doesn’t understand it at all and always called me lazy. She’d say “what do you mean you don’t have the motivation?? Just do it!!”
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This puts it so well.
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4 me it helps to have a routine or schedule and stick to it strictly. That is the only way I do well in school. Exercise at least 3 times a week and do something challenging once a week. Keep pushing yourself within comfortable limits.
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Scheduling is about the only thing that keeps me functional, but some things still slip through the cracks, like brushing my teeth and doing my laundry and showers. It’s weird. I do great with school stuff, but the self-care stuff just gets thrown onto the back burner.
Everything is an act of courage for me. I have very little motivation but I do things for my husband or force myself and it is mental anguish…trying to enjoy things. I have a lot of strategies life hacks to make myself do things like put outfits together when I have a little motivation while folding clothes. So then I can grab an outfit easier when I can hardly move. Motivation loss has taken a lot from me. Schedules and lists for basic reminders for me to do helps… like shower etc. It helps it not seem so big or complicated when I see it written
I try scheduling too. It helps, although, I sometimes don’t do everything I have ‘scheduled’. I just finished filling out my planner for this week before I read this. Wish me luck. I am draggin’ ass most of the time