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The main thing I learned outside having little routines to fall back to when I need to is realizing/deciding that when I'm anxious, sad, whatever I might as well feel that way while doing the work/chores that need to be done and not let it pile up. When I'm not getting stuff done I'm not actually any happier so I started just doing the work and getting it out of the way and at least feeling psychological relief from that, which is more pleasure than I'd feel being depressed in my bed or whatever.
I would crash out. Use that as an excuse to not do anything and put stuff on the backburner. And then feel even worse.
I 100% relate to this! It's so frustrating...when you're doing okay, you both intellectually and emotionally understand that doing some of these more unpleasant or challenging tasks will make you feel better afterwards. But when you're feeling down, your brain tricks you into thinking that you're just tooooo depressed to do anything, which can lead to things piling up, resulting in a vicious cycle of anxiety inducement. And yet, if you can ignore that voice and just start doing something, anything, it can really help to pull you out of that rut, and as you say, even if it doesn't, you'll at least feel better than if you were rotting in bed.