myowndeliverance:

Reminder to all my mentally ill peeps that it is perfectly possible to both be kind to yourself and give yourself a break when you can’t manage something AND to push yourself to do things your illness makes difficult. There’s no contradiction there!

You can tell yourself “depression or not, I need to get up, get dressed and go outside every day to push a positive change”, and also be like “I didn’t manage it today, it was too hard, but I can try again tomorrow and that’s fine.”

These aren’t mutually exclusive approaches. They’re both healthy ways of dealing with circumstance.