Lack of motivation for work

[RewiringHeadspace]

So I’ve posted here before about how my mental health struggles (depression and anxiety) have affected me at work. It’s significantly affected my work progress and productivity. It’s become pretty bad. My work taking a hit bothers me the most.

I’m finding that these struggles become so mentally and physically exhausting. I’m struggling with the fact that this leads to a lack of motivation for me to get the work done or sometimes to even go into work. I can’t afford to keep doing this.

How do you power through at work? Even with knowing that everything is on the line I’m still struggling with motivation and taking action. And talking to those I work for is not really an option here.

[Ava20]

I was myself in rough patch and struggling to do my work, I still am struggling. But what gave me a little strength to just take thr first step is people who responded to me on this platform. For the first time I genuinely felt that I'm not alone in this. Before it used to be from my friends who used to be half interested or not able to connect to me, a family which thinks I'm the happiest and because I take care of them I'm in no position to tell them about my struggles. And like you I couldn't say it to my supervisor. I think like me you also need to just connect with people who get your situation, and just say it out loud here to us of whay u feel, y u dont want to work, y there is a lack of motivation.

For me I lacked this motivation cause within I felt I'm not good enough for it and no matter how hard I try I'll not be able to have good thoughts and a useful research. And that I'm the odd person to whom no one can connect or no one likes cuz there is nothing good in me.

But when I got responses from people here I felt comfort, relatability and a feeling that if they can feel as bad as I do and still pick themselves up and work on themselves then zy can't I do it

And if they can come and motivate me even when they themselves are struggling y cant I atleast try to do something.

So all you need right now is to connect and to find the reason of y u don't want to do it.

[RewiringHeadspace in reply to Ava20]

Thanks for your response.

My lack of motivation and the other issues has affected my sleep and energy levels. And both of these things has affected my ability to work. I’m not getting the work done. I haven’t even kept up with the work I do from home. I can somewhat get to it because I don’t have to leave my apartment. But the work I have to leave my apartment for is another story. There is work I should have and could have done two weeks ago but didn’t. By not getting the work done on time I’ve made things worse for myself. Am I just not disciplined enough?? And now I have to work overtime to make everything work and that’s only if it does all work. It’s frustrating that I struggle so much to get up to do the work.