How to Stop Being Lazy and Depressed?

The depression is an insidious disease. It’s hard to identify it on your own.

As a rule you may notice it when it has already taken you up. Some people are so much depressed that they start to perceive this condition as a “black streak in their life”.

That’s just it that unlike the “black streak” the depression won’t go away all by itself. You should fight against it! It’s good if you have someone who’s always ready to help you.

In consequence of slack and apathetic condition depression is often accompanied by laziness which together with depression should be done away!

Before I give you some piece of advice about how to stop being lazy and depressed I’d like to tell you about the difference between these two notions and how to identify them.

How to Differ Laziness from Depression?

Being lazy means to have an aversion to labor, business, occupations and an inclination to idleness and sponging.

If you examine this phenomenon in the context of biology, it is a realization of energy saving principle. With relation to psychology being lazy means to have no motivation.

Symptoms determining laziness:

• Sense of task performance uselessness;
• A lot of things to do and the absence of performance plan;
• Lassitude, overfatigue, wasting of body physical and energy resources;
• Absence of firm decision to do the tasks;
• Frequent desire to have a rest;
• One of the most frequent thoughts: “I don’t understand why I should do that”.

It’s easier to fight against laziness than against depression as in most cases being lazy means to have an unwillingness to do something against the grain.

But if a person is interested and sees his real profit of affair the laziness will step aside while the motivation to act will come out on top.

It’s a little harder when you are depressed as you have a mental disorder the symptoms of which are determined by depression triad:

• Mood degradation;
• Thought process disorder;
• Motor retardation.

A depressed person is no more interested in his life and has a low self-esteem. In many cases you may become depressed because of different events like bereavement of relative, firing, family discord.

In most cases a depressed person is treated medicamentally with the application of barbiturates, tranquilizers and antipsychotics.

We can come to the conclusion that some symptoms of depression and those of laziness are similar but reasons and consequences are far from being the same.

If a bored person is proposed some truly interesting occupation and he will agree to catch a break then he’s lazy. And if he waves aside he’s depressed.

The condition of being lazy tends to come to its end and give place to periods of amusement, the duration of laziness may last a few days.

The depression, in its turn, is a phenomenon longtime enough, it may last more than two weeks and sometimes it’s very hard to be out of doldrums on your own.

8 General Pieces of Advice: How to Stop Being Lazy and Depressed

1. You should make a day regimen which you could absolutely follow: time to get up, meals (including so-called “snacks”), going to bed should be approximately at one time.

2. You should liberate yourself as much as possible from household chores (washing the dishes, cooking, cleaning etc.) to have more time for a rest.

   If nobody can take a part of this indeed capacious and energy-consuming work on himself don’t be upset!

   Distribute among several evenings all these household chores which you usually do with your last strength in one evening after work.

   Today you can wash the dishes and a sink, tomorrow – run the vacuum cleaner, on weekend – wash the floor etc.

   It’s clear that keeping the regime is quite easier if you are on vacation, don’t have little children, a hungry husband and other family members, all this on a small floor area besides that.

   But if you want to be a healthy person, to enjoy every day of your life and not to be burdened by negative thoughts around the clock (doing like that it’s no distance to thoughts of death) leave behind all the things to do for a while! Take good care of yourself!

   Just try to get up at the same time.

   Loosen up (even if it would be simple “pandiculations” in your bed).

3. Don’t forget to eat five times a day.

   You should eat the most nutrient-enriched food – more fruit and vegetables, juices, cultured milk products, meat or fish dishes according to your taste.

   Try to limit bread and flour products and sweets (TO LIMIT but not exclude).

   The scientists proved you may reduce the emotional tension “crackling” some wafers, smacking seeds and eating nuts. The main thing is TO KNOW THE MEASURE!

   Instead of black coffee and strong tea choose herbal tea (better with mint or melissa), juices, drinks with chicory and barley.

4. Try to spend not less than an hour in the open air.

   Not just to stand with head full of negative thoughts, annoyance, rage, offense and pity for yourself.

   Not just to run a distance to the shop or to work, kindergarten or school with the corresponding and not leaving you for a moment concerns.

   Make yourself (and soon it will fall into a good habit) to notice the weather, the particularities of the season and landscape.

   Even if it’s a city landscape anyway pay attention to windows, vitrines, reflection in the puddle. The moon, the sun, the stars are also seen in the city by the way. Share all you have seen with your child or with an intimate person or just with a neighboring old woman.

5. Exclude relaxations like “playing the computer” or “surfing the Internet” CATEGORICALLY!

   You seem to abstract from negative thoughts but indeed your weary and inflamed brain gets a colossal amount of totally unnecessary ballast information which exhausts your mind more and more.

   By the way the same concerns the TV information even if you watch “a relaxing series when you can think of nothing” or talking for hours on the telephone.

6. Make a plan for the nearest day off.

   Use minimum time on your household chores (item 1).

   Do only the most important things, leave some time for a beauty dream.

   Find some time for creative work: drawing, knitting, doing puzzles (but not everything at a time, don’t overstrain yourself).

   Going for a walk in the air is very important.

   You may visit a native region museum (where you won’t hear a lot of new difficult and fatiguing information), a zoo or a concert.

7. Turn on relaxing music before going to sleep.

   Take a bath, better with some aromatic oil, for example, pine or mint oil (a spoonful of mineral salt and 8-10 drops of aromatic oil for a standard bath).Drink some herbal tea with honey and go to bed with pleasant thoughts.

8. Change your entourage if possible.

   Don’t return phone calls of unpleasant people, try to avoid meeting an intrusive friend or neighbor.

   Try to communicate only with people pleasant for you.

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Sometimes it’s enough to spend a few days in such regime to return your work capacity and high spirits.

As a rule you need to work on yourself at least for three weeks.

If you don’t want to wait for symptoms of forthcoming disease and then not to look for answers to the question: “How you can stop being lazy and depressed?” spend such “fasting” for your nervous system days regularly whenever you have an opportunity and as often as possible.

Then high spirits and health won’t leave you anymore!