I am 61, with a 40-year history of depression/dysthymia, on long-term antidepressants - currently trazodone.
Although I enjoy my work as a database manager, I am finding it increasingly hard to keep motivated and often, as now, succumb to the lure of the internet - although currently the database is tied up with a long export anyway.
My main problem is housework. Over the 3½ years since Mum died, I've let things slide more and more. It is so hard to start what I know I can't finish in one go. I may start just 'allowing myself' 15 minutes at a time, so I get the satisfaction of having achieved at least one goal. I dread anyone coming to visit. In 10 days I have to have my living room and kitchen straight, as someone will pop in to feed my fur-babies (hamster and 2 rats!) for two days while I'm at a conference.
i'm also just getting over a lousy virus and have had a recent heart scare - awaiting a probable angiogram.
Any other ideas?
Although I enjoy my work as a database manager, I am finding it increasingly hard to keep motivated and often, as now, succumb to the lure of the internet - although currently the database is tied up with a long export anyway.
My main problem is housework. Over the 3½ years since Mum died, I've let things slide more and more. It is so hard to start what I know I can't finish in one go. I may start just 'allowing myself' 15 minutes at a time, so I get the satisfaction of having achieved at least one goal. I dread anyone coming to visit. In 10 days I have to have my living room and kitchen straight, as someone will pop in to feed my fur-babies (hamster and 2 rats!) for two days while I'm at a conference.
i'm also just getting over a lousy virus and have had a recent heart scare - awaiting a probable angiogram.
Any other ideas?