Why is it so difficult to shower when a person is depressed?

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Showering is the main one I’m curious about, however, it kind of goes along with all seemingly simple personal care things like: showering, brushing your teeth, brushing your hair, doing laundry, changing clothes, etc.

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It seems like a huge undertaking. A massive ordeal. And not just that, but useless, too. You have to strip down fully naked (and then see your body, to boot). Then you have to do every single thing that comes of a shower: wash hair, wash body, wash face, and the whole time it’s just like… why am I doing this? Who am I trying to impress? What difference will it make, to anyone, whether I’m clean or not? I’m not going to feel better either way. Why am I even pretending like I’m a human who should be clean?

And then you come out, dry off, and you’re still the same person as when you went in, but now you have to put on clothes and you’re damp. And again, you ask: why?

(YMMV)

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