Bad Day

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Today, I'm slow.

I woke up feeling bored and lethargic and it never wore off. I can't bring myself to do anything important. My thoughts are slow and I can hardly understand myself. My bones kinda ache, like I've rolled down a hill or something.

I don't see how I could function at all today. It's taking all I can muster just to do something and not lay on my bed and stare at the wall.

What are your 'off' days like?

My off days are like you describe for your bad day today.

My way to deal with them is to not try to do important stuff that day, but still get out of bed, get out of pajamas, and assign myself some small easy tasks that I wouldn't want to do when I am really busy on another day, so I can get some stuff out of the way for when my brain gets good again the next day, and the reason that I always try to do something even on bad day is because I feel worse about my day if I don't do anything at all, so doing some easy stuff ackshuly makes bad day not as bad and saves time on good days in future.

I have days like that, too.

If I wake up and it's one of those, I try to reschedule important things for other days. Those are days that are good for mindless chores, not pushed, not rushed. And nothing that takes too much fast and clear thinking.

I wake up approximately that way, make some tea because nothing helps more and wait for my parents to start complaining about my resume. Then I study all night trying to forget it.

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Mine include waking up more tired instead of refreshed and feeling down in the dumps. I would have the same feeling through the day and would go about my work slower than usual and not wanting to talk to anyone. I would avoid the front parts counter as much as I could and resign myself to the quiet and solitude of the warehouse.

That sounds like me today.
I exercise four days a week, and today was one of them.
I felt terrible, depressed, headache, and unmotivated.
I spent some time on facebook - waste of time.
Looked at some things that should only be looked at when you are alone, and then bit the bullet and did my exercise.
It hurt like hell, and I had to take paracetamol at the end, as I was in agony.
I almost couldn't finish my exercise and felt spent at the end.

After that I had a shower, had lunch, and got to work doing housework.
Now several hours later I feel somewhat better.

So I think the answer is when you feel terrible, do something that will physically tire you out, and get out of your routine if it's not working, or stay in it if it is.

Get out of the house, get a sweat up, and move your body to burn off the stress hormones.
If it hurts it's working, but don't stop until you've burned it out of your system.

Working out when you feel crap will stop the depression from building up incrementally until you are incapacitated, at least that's my experience.

This is my day today, the thing is I could have stayed up until 3am had I wanted too, I missed my alarm by 2 hours and its lunch time and all I have got finished is a simple guitar repair, my eye lids feel so heavy, so does my head and I feel so clumsy and want to go back to bed. I know how my day will go by when I wake up and how I feel. On my bad days usually I wake up around 8pm then have to force myself to go to bed at a reasonable time.

I had a day like that yesterday. I think it was because I stayed up so late the night before. I usually go to bed around 11 but I just got cable so I got sucked into a couple of movies and missed my sleep cues and didn't get to bed until almost 2.

I opened my eyes at 6:30, knew I was non-functional and empty, told DH he'd need to get DS to school, then called in sick to work and closed my eyes again. I woke up at about 10:30 but didn't get up until 12:30. My mind was mostly blank all day. I couldn't muster the energy to think. I had to talk out loud to myself step-by-step to shower, make coffee, and decide what to do.