Always feel lazy

[SamanthaAnastasia]

Sometimes I think my mental illness and medication is an excuse to be lazy.
Right now, I’m still getting used to my increase of medication.
It makes it hard to fall asleep but when I wake up(around 8 or so hours), I still feel extremely exhausted.
I dont even want to do any of my hobbies, just play on my phone or watch tv.
I don’t like being unproductive.
I don’t like being lazy.
I feel sinful I suppose because of sloth.
I just don’t know what to do about it.

 

[whereloveandmercymeet]

It doesn’t sound like lazy. Lazy you want to do things you like. Sounds more like the symptoms of mental illness. It should improve when you’re used to med changes. If not, tell your doctor you’re still feeling like this and they should be able to help.

Been there. Praying for you.

 

[CherubRam]

Sometimes I think my mental illness and medication is an excuse to be lazy.
Right now, I’m still getting used to my increase of medication.
It makes it hard to fall asleep but when I wake up(around 8 or so hours), I still feel extremely exhausted.
I dont even want to do any of my hobbies, just play on my phone or watch tv.
I don’t like being unproductive.
I don’t like being lazy.
I feel sinful I suppose because of sloth.
I just don’t know what to do about it.

I understand what you are saying. If you do not have a vitamin deficiency, then it is the depression causing the problem. Being outdoors and going for long walks can help with the problem. You could also have your blood checked to see if that is the problem.

 

[Jeshu]

Sometimes I think my mental illness and medication is an excuse to be lazy.
Right now, I’m still getting used to my increase of medication.
It makes it hard to fall asleep but when I wake up(around 8 or so hours), I still feel extremely exhausted.
I dont even want to do any of my hobbies, just play on my phone or watch tv.
I don’t like being unproductive.
I don’t like being lazy.
I feel sinful I suppose because of sloth.
I just don’t know what to do about it.

Almost certainly your depression. i have struggled with not feel like doing anything for years, sometimes it is worse than other times. Do you find that in your manic times you become productive again, i always did. i become frantic even.

 

[Serving Zion]

Sometimes I think my mental illness and medication is an excuse to be lazy.
Right now, I’m still getting used to my increase of medication.
It makes it hard to fall asleep but when I wake up(around 8 or so hours), I still feel extremely exhausted.
I dont even want to do any of my hobbies, just play on my phone or watch tv.
I don’t like being unproductive.
I don’t like being lazy.
I feel sinful I suppose because of sloth.
I just don’t know what to do about it.

It is probably mostly a side-effect of the medication (not completely though), so I'd say give it a couple of weeks and if it doesn't improve then you might talk to the doctor and see if there is an alternative, or a prospect of gradually reducing it by a small fraction until you find the right balance.

 

[CherubRam]

Everyone should be glad that they don't have herpes simplex 10.

 

[Jeshu]

What i find about this is that lazy is such a loaded word and so negative. Low energy is a more accurate description of our state than lazy. Depression causes us to have less energy and medications often amplify that problem, that is not because we are lazy people but because we are ill and it is one of the symptoms.

i have been beating myself up for years because i judged myself lazy, which always made the depression worse and would yield rock bottom energy levels.

i found that vitamins in the B range helped me a lot to battle low energy levels, nevertheless low energy remains a symptom of my illness, especially now that i take anti-psychotics to keep the manic times at bay.

Peace.

 

[whereloveandmercymeet]

What i find about this is that lazy is such a loaded word and so negative. Low energy is a more accurate description of our state than lazy. Depression causes us to have less energy and medications often amplify that problem, that is not because we are lazy people but because we are ill and it is one of the symptoms.

i have been beating myself up for years because i judged myself lazy, which always made the depression worse and would yield rock bottom energy levels.

i found that vitamins in the B range helped me a lot to battle low energy levels, nevertheless low energy remains a symptom of my illness, especially now that i take anti-psychotics to keep the manic times at bay.

Peace.

Yes! I think that’s a much better way of describing it, as low energy level. I would personally think lazy is a better description for an attitude rather than an outcome, if that makes sense. So someone who’s lazy is perfectly able (in body and mind) to do a given thing but simply doesn’t wish to rather than cannot muster the required mental or physical energy to do so (either temporarily or for a prolonged period).