But basically what you're trying to do is you're trying to force your brain to adapt.

Right now you have this really well-worn loop going on where you're not really feeling any pleasure or any interest in things

And that's common in depression, but you need to teach your brain to be

interested again. You need to teach it to feel pleasure again. And the only way to

do that is basically to pretend like you were motivated. Ask yourself, what would I be doing if I were motivated?

And then go through the motions of whatever that thing would be.

Go through the motions of whatever that activity is,

if that were the case, if you were feeling motivated,

if you weren't feeling depressed and it's going to feel

fake it's going to feel robotic it's going to feel you know disin genuine and it's not going to feel

good but that's the start and you keep doing that and that's going to train your

brain to go oh yeah that's right little things are going to light up in there and you're

like that's right this does feel good and I think I like this I want want this, but that takes time, it takes repetition.

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