[mental health] [suggestions wanted!] Okay throwing this out to the crowd

Got some moderate depression that's set in. It's definitely impeding my ability to Do Anything but I have to go clean the gym and set up for classes

So I need to bribe my brain with a treat after

Suggestions? What helps you when you're not seriously low but low enough to be frustrated with yourself?

Junk food. Which I realize is not ideal but there we are

hum

i like to go down fanfic/fan blog rabbit holes so i usually have a few bookmarked and i can read one if i get my shit done

namely those damn froty-ccino things wendy's done that is like a cheap frappe. "If I go out and do the thing I get ice cream coffee on the way home."

...frosty not froty, dammit

junk food here, too. do the thing, get cookies

frostyccinos are SO GOOD

THEY SO FUCKING ARE. I love those damn things, LOL

anyway yeah those and reese's pb eggs (in season) are my standard self-bribes. I drive past the opportunity to get them and it makes me like going out and doing shit more. I'm a dog

change my CER dammit

Promise myself a bit of tea and yeah a bit of something like cheese or so

yeah... junk food. McDonalds or a shake somewhere

used to be Starbucks, but I can make tastier coffee at home now

yeah. ice cream or something

When I am low but frustrated rather than too low to cope, bribes definitely work. There's also the classic tactic of "we're gonna stand up. that's cool right? we can stand. okay, we're standing, now we're gonna go put on our shoes. cool, we got shoes on. now, we achieve coat. holla, we have coat. since we're all ready we may as well GO." etc.

I meant food bribes specifically, my bad, but sometimes I also reward myself with vegetation, in the sense that I go "look, okay, we do in fact have to go do a thing, but after that, we can live in a blanket fortress for xxx hours and watch crappy reality tv cooking shows while eating nothing but popcorn and chocolate chips"

removing bra + putting on comfy clothes as the instantaneous "you did it, you're home now!" reward used to be very good, but I given I don't leave the house anymore, bras are a myth