DAE have this same issue? A few people I know believe that if I just get a job, it will get me out doing things and wa-la I’ll be happy again. I try to explain why a job wouldn’t be a fix-all for several reasons but they still don’t understand. All it does is make me feel like a lazy bum that is “wasting their time” being depressed.
1. I got at several points so depressed I wasn’t even drinking enough water or taking medication that was literally right next to my head on the nightstand. How am I supposed to hold a responsibility like a job?
2. The depression I am going through is many times regarding things in my past that affect me to this day. I’d rather try to seek help (which I’m trying now) and “go through the motions” of this pain now rather than jumping into the rat race so-to-speak, pretending everything’s fine, bottling it all up until one day in my early 30s I explode from these mental health problems I never addressed 10 years ago.
3. In a weird way, sometimes being in bed all day has actually been therapeutic in itself. I’ve had a very stressful, hectic year- at many points literally in survival mode (such as being in the Texas winter storm). I just want to lay in my safe warm bed and do nothing. Not forever, just for a little while.