I am so tired of sitting around feeling gross, but I can’t get myself to shower. I just can’t do it, and it’s not for a lack of drive- which I’ve actually had lately. However, because I’m not showering, it’s inhibiting my ability to do things as I won’t leave the house unclean and sometimes won’t leave my bedroom. So even though I want and am able to do things, I won’t.
So I must ask your theories (or maybe someone has a scientific answer): What causes us to avoid showers?
I’m sorry, and I understand. I think so many on here do. I’ve only had motivation for about a month. It’s the lack of showering that’s getting in my way a lot of times. It doesn’t help that, now that I’ve gained weight, everything seems so much more difficult!
Lack of motivation! I have it too, but god it feels great after a good shower! Nothing like feeling clean. I hate myself when I’m too lazy to shower and I feel so gross! Routine is important because you get used to not doing stuff and that becomes you telling yourself that you can’t do it!
Yeah, I seriously need to get into a routine. When I was in the hospital, it was easy. I didn’t skip showers. I was bored as all get-out, but I showered every morning.
My Pdoc made me fill out a timesheet for how to structure my day, really helped me to have a checklist on showering, chores and such. On the days I can follow it, or even parts of it, I call an accomplished day
I find if I shower early in the day I will do and accomplish so much more. On days that I don’t shower I don’t want to do anything! So really for me something as simple as showering really is (the hard part is just getting off my behind) that it really rescues my day from sitting around doing nothing like a bump on a log! I hate looking back at all the life I’ve missed out on because of my own laziness!
I’m happy if I take 2 showers a week. In April I had gone 5 weeks without showering, so twice a week is a good improvement. I’ve also been brushing my teeth regularly and am proud of myself for that. And I’m actually changing clothes when I shower, too, which is another change for me.