I've been depressed and still am from 2002 though not as bad as I once was. What helped me was medication and finding what fit for me. It can be quite the task to change meds and find the right one for you but in the end it can really help.
I've hit a heavy low. I can't stop crying and I have zero energy. I try to do things productive like laundry and grocery shopping and I feel good for a little bit but then I feel exhausted and I just lay in bed and cry.
my main issue is that i don't want to eat. All I've consumed the past two days is 3 glasses of milk. I've lost nearly five pounds and I havent lost it in a healthy way.
I also need to clean my house but I'd rather live in filth but i think the cycle is just making me more depressed. Everything on the internet is basically drink water eat healthy and exercise but lmfao its an effort to even sit upright and not cry.
What are helpful tips to combat these two topics specifically? What have you found works for you? I'm trying to tackle my two biggest problems right now and i think those are it. I am on meds but they're not working.
Edit: I am on medication I'm taking trileptal and fleuxotine (what have you)
I went to bed at 6 pm lmfao and I'm probably gonna sleep till 2 pm but I'm taking meal replacements at least in my milk because that's all I'm interested in
Rather than a bag of chips I'd recommend trail mix or mixed nuts, even peanuts. Buy some when grocery shopping, unless you're allergic of course. I found that resorting to ready-made meals and stuff like chips only made me feel worse, because of the high sodium and low nutritional value. Plus it made me "dependent" on junk food which made me feel worse.
Keep a bottle of water by your bed. Refill it from the tap when you remember to. Personally I found it much easier not to get dehydrated out of pure apathy when I always had some liquid within hands reach.
Cleaning is...yeah, start small and try to allocate a specific day or specific time to do certain tasks. "On sundays I do the laundry and I'll see how much of the room I can clean before I have to take the laundry out". I know it doesn't help with some people but for me...once I managed to get myself moving and find that energy to start doing small things it gave me enough satisfaction to move over to larger stuff, even temporarily.
The whole "eat healthy, drink water and exercise" thing has a point, not in that doing so will make you necessarily "happy" but not doing so will definitey make your condition worse. Exercise helps to get endorphins pumping - if you can't manage that try going for a walk. A long walk. For me the hardest part was always getting dressed and out of the house but once I'd managed that I could be gone for 2-3 hours at a time, not because I was trying but because I lost track of time and most of all you get that I Did Something Today feeling when you return.
I do hope you get better. Don't be afraid to talk about it with a psychiatrist or loved ones. =/
EDIT: If you're the kind who sleeps excessively and with no particular pattern then perhaps setting an alarm for the morning could help? That's just a suggestion based on something I've always done, even on days off. I found that it helped to keep me from losing a sense of time, which made me feel a bit more normal. Otherwise sleeping all the time and at random intervals just made me feel rather unreal and miserable.