I do not want to do anything. Is this addiction? - eviltoast

Sorry for mental health kind of question, but I do not know better place to ask about this stuff.

Nowadays, I lie down on a bed and just watch twitch streams all day, with a little bit of browsing lemmy in between. I do not want to do anything, pretty much any activity seems to cause exhaustion. So, I just do bare minimum and return to bed, watching twitch for over 5 hours.

Another is that I feel I cannot do anything good enough. I cannot study effectively, cannot do menial tasks without being stressed. This is especially concerning for me because I am taking a graduate program, but I also doubt I could do any kind of real work. I just don’t think I have capability to read complicated texts and remember it clearly, write a decent piece of literature on some subject, or just about anything at all.

Is this related to addiction - can addiction make me feel exhausted all the time? Also, how can I escape this permanent lethargy? Any tips would be greatly appreciated!

  • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    28 days ago

    While this sounds wonderful, if this person is suffering from depression, everything you just described will feel either completely impossible for this person, or like absolutely and utterly useless wastes of time.

    Exercise, nature, and activities certainly help depression, but the difficulty lies in actually finding the energy and give-a-shit to do those things, which in my experience was impossible without outside help (like therapy and meds).