I know I’m falling into a major depressive episode and I need a routine to get me through it. What’s part of your routine? I recently just quit my job and don’t have another one, so my current routine roughly looks like: 

6am - wake up, feed my dog and scroll social media

6:30am - fall back asleep 

10am - wake up, let my dog outside, play music, move to the couch to watch TV/scroll on my phone 

12pm - make a snack/breakfast (hummus and veggies, pickles or some sort of sandwich)

12:30 - just sit on the couch and have tv or music on/nap 

4pm - bring my dog to the park 

5pm - feed my dog dinner and sit on the couch until bed time, sometimes I’ll eat more hummus and veggies before bed 

8pm - bring my dog back outside 

It all kind of varies, the other day I took my dog to the movie theater to watch a movie instead of sit on the couch to nap. Today I ended up at the beach for an hour before I got too exhausted being outside and came home. Sometimes I’ll go to the gym pool to lay outside but really, doing anything just exhausts me so easily and it feels like I physically can’t get up. I know social media and TV aren’t good and I’ve been trying to replace it with music but I really just hate sitting/laying down not doing anything and I know it’s making me even more depressed. 

Location: Southern California, 15min away from downtown, beach and pretty much anything. I do have a luxury gym membership so gym classes are an option but I have a hard time getting motivation to get up and go.