Functioning with depression tips?

[Bandersnatch]

Cleaning, working out, socializing all feel pointless. Going out for errands feels pointless. It's like I've forgotten why I do stuff

The only time things in my life “need” a point? Is when I’m depressed.

It’s become one of the ways I check myself… when I start thinking/feeling that XYZ is pointless? I’m probably depressed. Whether there’s no emotion attached; why bother? What’s the point? Shrug. Doldrums. Blankness. Heavy emptiness. Robotic blah. -Or- Whether there’s really violent emotion attached; like it’s life or death that I understand the point before I do it, or despair, or rage.

Personal Mantra : Just because I can’t see the point? Doesn’t mean there isn’t one. I just can’t see it, right now. Do it anyway.

 

[SeekingAfrica]

The only time things in my life “need” a point? Is when I’m depressed.

It’s become one of the ways I check myself… when I start thinking/feeling that XYZ is pointless? I’m probably depressed. Whether there’s no emotion attached; why bother? What’s the point? Shrug. Doldrums. Blankness. Heavy emptiness. Robotic blah. -Or- Whether there’s really violent emotion attached; like it’s life or death that I understand the point before I do it, or despair, or rage.

Personal Mantra : Just because I can’t see the point? Doesn’t mean there isn’t one. I just can’t see it, right now. Do it anyway.

Very true. I always have drive except when depression hits. But I've very goal oriented I guess, passionate- so that lack of feeling, or motivation, it's drowning...
I'm trying though. I feel like I wouldn't have even done small stuff if I wasn't trying to make a list every single day with the simple tasks, baby steps. Even when I don't complete it, checking things off helps me remember I have done something even through the fog I'm in lately. Most days anyway.