What do you do when you’re essentially too depressed to do anything including reading? As an avid reader, this is just making me feel worse. Thoughts? Suggestions? I’ve started and DNF at least 6 books in the past 7 days. Last novel I was able to get through was My Year of Rest and Relaxation. No lasting thoughts. Just glad I was able to start and finish something.
by jni6543
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I’m really sorry to hear it. I hope you’ve got therapy / medication sorted out, if not I’d suggest start there.
When my major depressive disorder started I couldn’t do anything for the first month. I hadn’t done any reading at all in 10 years. I’d done a degree in literature and just stopped reading entirely after that. My psychiatrist suggested I start again. So I’d walk down to the river and sit and read a book, just like half an hour every day as any longer was too much for me. For my degree I’d read all that high brow literary fiction. These days I read pretty much exclusively scifi – I don’t want anything too real.