If you find that no matter how hard you try, you just cannot get the ball rolling, even on these easy wins, and you have already tried the strategies that I have outlined here, it may be useful to consider medication. I talk more about this in a later chapter, but the purpose of medication for depression is basically to give you a little boost in your neurotransmitters to ease your lethargy and low motivation a bit, so you have more emotional energy available and can put in the work re-training your brain like we talked about above.
