As someone who has struggles with severe depression and anxiety, this is both true and false. Yes, there is never a point in my life where someone telling me to

As someone who has struggles with severe depression and anxiety, this is both true and false. Yes, there is never a point in my life where someone telling me to “just do it” would have helped. But simultaneously, everything said above about how doing something immediately helps lower the total amount of negative emotion is true. If I can muster the will to “just do it” from within, it does legitimately help with the anxiety in the long run. Especially as a self reinforcing loop where the more things I manage, the less I have to feel anxious about. Of course on the otber side, when I slip up and fail to manage tasks the anxiety makes it even harder to start clearing away that which is making me anxious. There are times in my life where I have and haven’t actually managed this well. Medication is often necessary, sometimes therapy, sometimes admitting that it’s too much to people and taking a break to reset my responsibilities. But in the end it’s hard to say that anything other than “just do it” defines the way to make things happen.