Help How do you guys manage to get through your day to day tasks?

[Nat.]

I haven't showered in two weeks. I feel absolutely disgusting, but I just can't. I have no energy for anything. I can't even take the trash out, the only thing I force myself to do is feed my cats, change their water, keep their litter boxes clean and i even try to play with them everyday. Ans that is a lot, but they deserve to be happy and healthy. Anything else, i just can't.

What do you do when you can't take care of basic things?

 

[maggineko]

My brow piercing kind of forces me to take a shower every day because I didn't spend 70 bucks for it to fall out in less than a month, and I'd really like snakebites someday so I try to get mysef to brush my teeth as often as I can, but even a monthly record would be 5 times a month.

If I have urgent coursework, I honestly just gauge how long it would take and put it off to the last minute, like if it took 2 hours to do, I'd do it at the last 2 hours before it was due. Sometimes I put it in my Reminders and have the reminder pop up annoyingly every 30 minutes, but more often than not, I just get annoyed and delete it lol.

More than anything, I try to shut down the perception of my other tasks, as if I'm running on a track and I look ahead of me and see this looong way to go, and I start feeling hopeless, so I "make it go night time, and I only have a headlamp so I can only see what's in front of me" and before I know it, I'm done. I also just divide my work, like ah I finished 30% of this assignment today so that's 30% less I have to worry about tomorrow.

 

[3rdworldsadness]

My mind is frozen and blank most of the time I don't even know how times are going it's feels so werrid, I just keep breathing until I actually get my method.

 

[Lamentice]

Having a non-remote, full-time job pretty much demands I have decent hygiene maintained. Keeping my apartment clean though.. forget it.. I haven't done my dishes in so long that even the mold has died, I can't really walk anywhere except this sliver of a path from the doorway; my bathroom is clean though! I've been keeping that clean for a few months.

 

[ImSoOverIt]

To be honest I think forcing myself to have some form of routine kind of helps me personally. Like yes I feel worthless most of the time but sometimes thinking that I'm not getting anything done makes that 4 times worse?

I also think having people who depend on me also kind of forces me to keep trying no matter what

 

[Sprite_Geist]

I try to set my brain to "autopilot" mode when doing tasks that do not need much focus. If I am doing something else (namely a chore) that needs more thinking, but is still boring, then I try to force myself to not have thoughts that will deplete my motivation. The only tasks I do not have an issue with doing most of the time are ones relating to personal hygiene.

I guess I am strange, because I oftentimes neglect almost every aspect of my life, and personal environment except for bodily hygiene; I think this is because I have what feels like an obsessive dislike of even the smallest amount dirt, and an extreme anxiety around body odor which forces me to clean myself constantly - I hate sweat.

 

[ikiruNObungaku]

I get the feeling. I haven't showered in a long time too, and I have trouble taking care of my hygiene at times. However, sometimes I have a "spark" that gets me to do one thing, and once I do one thing, I make it a habit of doing many things in that same moment while I am in a flow state.

Another thing that helped me though, I made a nice looking chart of things to do on a board. When I check something off, I feel validated and it helps my mood a bit.

 

[Pluto]