Where did my motivation go? Grrrrr

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This isn't a big deal and I'll get up here in an hour or so and get busy but for about the last month or so I have been on top of everything, getting things done, enjoying what I'm doing around here etc. Then all that stress with DH and jail and his brother being a douche and so much stuff that I haven't even posted about did me in. Plus I had my period and hormones went haywire and I slept for a couple days and now I'm just bleh. I'm not depressed, I just have no motivation at all to get up and get to doing what I'm going to eventually have to get up and get to doing anyway.

I went to the store and bought a Faygo Moon Mist (fake Mtn Dew) and a Red Bull and I'm gonna drink them and try to get motivated and get off my ass and actually get something accomplished today. It's like my head just isn't in the right place and I hate when it gets like this. The only way to get out of this slump is get up and get busy anyway, and I guess that's what I'll do here in a few, but I hate when this happens.

Anybody else go through spells like this?

I do, all the time. I just lose my focus completely. It's like a mini-shutdown. I feel headachy and fuzzy and overstimulated at the same time, and can't get enough quiet time to myself to get refocused.

Yes, allow yourself a mini-break to watch the X-Files. A change of venue. I'm almost so busy just now that I'm racing to get it all done. And I do. I have to remind myself to rest. Could you make yourself a schedule? Even writing the to-do list helps - just make it one step at a time. You can do it!

Yes. I have been going through such a spell for the last 2 months. It is annoying, because I am typically one of those who stays pumped-up about some special interest or another.

I may likely be in a mini-shutdown mode, resulting from a particularly traumatic event at the end of September. I have never had a spell of this type last for so long. It is as though I have dissociated from life both emotionally and intellectually. Ugh.

I am doing all the things that normally help me recover from such spells, though so far they have not flipped my Life Switch back to "On".

Getting the clean laundry folded and the beds made really helped. Now it's not like I have that much to do. My younger daughter is having two friends over for the weekend so her room will just be left alone except for occasional forays into it to grab laundry, garbage and dishes, but the girls are usually pretty good about not making a mess.

Right now they are playing Scrabble in the den with my older daughter. And yes, two of them are sitting on the new pink couch. They know my feelings about the couch so they are being careful lol.

I've been going through this myself, sadly. Working at Walmart plus running my online courses...for the last month or so, everything feels like a struggle. I have a long weekend now (today, 11/23 and 11/24) off from Wally, so I've told myself "Get ahead on all of your course responsibilities"--then I don't wake up until noon today, have felt COMPLETELY unfocused all day--can't even say "I'll do something enjoyable instead" like reading, because I can't even focus on that.

This headache isn't helping either...oh well.

So, yes--I think this happens to a lot of people.

I'm no exception. Happened to me most in HS and college.

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I've got most of my house cleaned up now. I still need to do a couple dishes and then the floors and dust really good, but overall it's clean. I also do need to clean the bathrooms too. But that won't take long. I just hate how I feel when I'm behind and I know it and can see it. A mess will drive me insane. Of course now that I'm all caffiened up I'll probably be up all night but that's ok, I have things to do in the morning.