Millo wrote:
Okay so about a year ago I was severely depressed going through a rough time and had to get therapy for it. It's been a year since then and i do feel like I've moved on but i feel hollow. It's just that i don't care anymore, i may have been depressed as fuck but at least i had emotion and felt alive now i don't feel anything about anything. I've also gotten lazy as hell, i can't even get up to do fun things like play video games, i got to work, come home have a nap and maybe go to my friends and have a fun time for a little while before i go home and sleep again. Fuck i remember how artistic and imaginative i was last year, every time i try to draw or paint i get frustrated as i haven't improved enough in my eyes. I know some would suggest getting a gf but the thing is I'm really not interested in anyone and even if i was being in a relationship wouldn't really cheer me up anyways, I'm fine being single for now. I just really need to stop being so lazy and make that leap to pursue my art and stuff
Has anything changed from then to now?
Also an important thing to keep in mind is that pretty much everyone hates their initial creative work, exactly because they're starting out and it's difficult or impossible to put what you're imagining in your mind on paper. Unfortunately the only way to get through this is to just power through it, because it's not like you'll suddenly become technically proficient over night, you have to gradually get better such as through exercise. But if depression is interfering with that then yeah that bit of thinking doesn't help much, but I'm usually pretty glad I did the stuff I did when I'm feeling unmotivated. I can draw something today and that may be a pain but by tomorrow it won't matter either way. If I didn't do it though, then yesterday is already gone and past when I could've had that drawing today.
Your future self won't care that past you had to force yourself to do something, your future self will only reap all the benefits while no longer experiencing any of the drawbacks. This tends to be a good philosophy for pretty much anything if you can knock yourself into that mindset. To your present self a nap or sleeping in sounds nice, but future you will only regret having slept in and not doing something else with that time.