One of the hardest elements of depression, as you who have experienced it will know, is that when depressed, it takes more energy, and more time, to do less, and to do it less efficiently. Yet, the dilemma of this fact is that to do nothing has about the same effect as napping in quicksand.
So I want to focus here on a core principle of working with depression, being: match your work to your amount of energy, and build energy by working. I’ll use a near-at-hand example-me-to illustrate this principle, and then do some theorizing towards the end.
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