Every day I end up almost late or late to what I have to get to because it takes me SO LONG to get dressed. I can’t stand it. I stay in my pajamas whenever I can and just throw a coat and pants over but sometimes that doesn’t work and I have to get dressed for work or class. It’s so incredibly hard and I don’t understand why. I don’t even feel greatly depressed right now. I mean I have been feeling that life is dragging on and I haven’t really been enjoying much lately, my mood is sort of flat. But that’s it! Yet I have so much trouble still doing everything! My room is such a mess and has been for months! Ugh!! Sick of this!!
go to school in your pajamas then. I’ve seen college students doing that before. They look like they just crawled out of bed.
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Even if I do that for class I can’t do that for work which I have every morning
Maybe you should set your clothes out the night before. I’ve tried that and it makes it a little easier to get ready in the morning. My wife tells me to shower in the morning but I can barely get out of bed in time let alone shower and I don’t really like to shower so I’m not going to recommend that.
I’ve been finding it hard to do simple things too. It’s frustrating.
I had a very simple report to create for work and I just couldn’t wrap my head around it no matter how hard I concentrated on it. I couldn’t gather my thoughts enough to do it. Is it something like that??
Yeah but for me it’s not even just work/school related it’s like anything. Getting food, cleaning, brushing my teeth, getting dressed, even just throwing something I have in the trash…the tiniest things that a normal person wouldn’t even think about.
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I have this too. I put off the smallest of tasks and I don’t even know why. I always feel better when I do it. I wear the same clothes for a few days in a row so I don’t have to think about what to wear most days. I keep wanting to go to the gym but I can’t even muster the strength to wash my sheets. I genuinely admire people who have energy, focus and motivation. How nice that must be!!! I wish…
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@Anna your post brought me to tears. In a good way. because I have been suffering with this and it I hard really hard and I don’t feel so alone.
The small things being hard to do is a very difficult thing bc the smallest things are sometimes he most important. Like showers or interacting with my family or just eating lately.
In real life, like off the forum, I just feel so alone in this. I had wept many times today and then opened the forum to your post. Thank you
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before i got sick i went to class three times a week and had to take the bus. i woke up every morning at 4am and took a shower, then i caught the bus at 5:30am after going to the gas station across the street from the bus stop to get a coffee and got to school by 7:30am and class started at 8am. thats a lot of stuff to do and it became super hard after i got sick during my third year.
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The only way to get me out of the house early in the morning is to shower the night before, put on the clothes to wear the next day, jump into bed, and sleep in them.
That’s actually not a bad idea, sleep in the clothes for the next day. Sounds so uncomfortable though 
Not when I was thinner,now I’d just wear them stretchie pants instead of my jeans. sometimes my boots would get tangled in the blankies tho.
That’s actually really funny. Sleeping in your clothes for the next day. The things we will do to save time. I sleep in my birthday suit so that would be quite uncomfortable for me although I have done it.