Because I am disabled and unable to work my 'schedule' is self-defined. On certain days I make certain themed steemit posts, and I have things I need to do sometime between when I wake up and when I go to bed in a day, but really that's about it. Half the time I just honestly don't know what to do with myself, so I try to take on projects that will keep me busy and doing something I feel is 'productive' to counteract those feelings.
Interesting to hear your perspective of having to find things to fill the space of not having a schedule. I can see myself having issues of being disciplined enough to get things accomplished if left to my own devices.
That was an issue for me at first, but I found myself falling deeper into the pit of depression and anxiety because I felt like I wasn't doing anything worthwhile when all I did was hang out on the internet and watch tv all day long because I can't work and really can't go out for a lot of reasons. But giving myself stuff to do, and imposing the deadlines as well as getting my roommate involved in that so I've got pressure from him to do things really helped a lot and after a while it just became habit.
So making schedules, deadlines, and having accountability all factored into pulling you out of the depression and anxiety? I guess having nothing to do is not the dreamland everyone may think it is. Thanks for sharing your point of view on this!
I wouldn't say they pulled me out, but more just....made things easier. The depression/anxiety combo is a really bad one because the anxiety screams at me to do stuff but the depression makes that really difficult because what's the point? Deadlines and accountability take advantage of my anxiety to override the depression, and then when I'm done the anxiety fades and I'm left feeling at least better than I was before. Better than sitting around doing nothing and having nothing to look forward to, at least.