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HAI!! So, I need help staying disciplined with, js basic self care tbh I have depression (undiagnosed but I have family members w/it nd show symptoms), nd simples tasks like brushing my teeth nd washing my face have become extremely hard to try and force myself to do, along with how shit my sleep schedule has become. I wanna start doing these things along with having the motivation to try lifting weights again, and stick with it this time, but everytime I just give up in a few days, does anyone know strategies to help w/that
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For me it really is just forcing yourself through it that makes it become a habit. I talk to myself in my head when I feel like I don't wanna do certain things, like this: "I know that if you do this you'll feel better! Now all you have to do is get out of bed and to the bathroom and turn on the shower."
How I talk to myself comes from some advice I was given once- to be nice to my inner child. Talk to yourself as if you are talking to a younger and stupider version of yourself: what would you say to them? Of course it might be hard to be nice as we all have a little bit of self hatred. But you wouldn't be mean to a child, would you? And if so, how could you coax that child to get out of bed to brush their teeth?
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