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I just want to feel like myself again.
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Hey everyone. I don't even know if this is the right place to be posting. I've been having a tough time recently. I feel unmotivated. Don't want to leave the house, go to work or do the things I normally do. I feel like I'm in a fog and don't enjoy anything anymore. I don't even want to eat. I don't think I really am ever hungry. I feel lost.

I felt this way a month or so ago for 3-4 days and kind of shook it off, got motivated, and was ok, but here it is back again and there doesn't seem to be a cause. It seems like it just happens at random and I'm knocked out for days.. All I want is to feel like myself. Yeah I'm lazy and don't like going out, I sit inside and play video games but I love doing that and I love trying to be better. I'm motivated, now I'm not.

I think I'm depressed. The symptoms fit and the fact that it goes on for days makes me feel like it's super likely. I'm not suicidal, I'm not even sad. I just don't care. I don't want to do anything at all ever.

For full disclosure during childhood I did take welburtin but that was for adhd and I'm 25 now. I talked to my doctor about depression a couple times but it always seemed to go away and not be a big deal. Are cycles like this normal??

I can't help but feel that I just need to push myself out of feeling like this, force myself into being "normal" I don't know. I don't know what's right or wrong or if I'm even depressed. I just want to know I'll be ok. I just want to be able to have a path to solving this. Can someone help? Can anyone relate??

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