Hi ca-on-adam.
Welcome around again.
ca-on-adam wrote:I'm on the QA team but I've been inactive for over two years. ... But I don't have the energy to install it on all that hardware.
It's not without a cause, as I have severe depression. I'm on medication and getting therapy for it.
Hopefully as I get better, I will become more active. If you have any tips on how I can make myself more active, let me know. I know that my ability to manage my daily schedule is pretty pathetic. I guess that's one of the key things I'll need to work on.
Congratulation for the courage to come out with this. There are some nasty and VERY wrong stereotypes in many cultures about that. Besides me I have several close ones which had depression too in some period of life.
I'm sorry for your condition but OTOH I'm sure you'll get better if you commit to YOUR recovery. So your best way to also help us in the long run is to follow the therapy and instructions from professionals and listen to the experience from those who managed to pass those dark valleys.
From the experience and understanding the following might help you.
Enjoying outdoors especially sun (with protection if needed of course), including
more vegetables (especially green one) on in meals, having a proper REGULAR
sleep rhythm (not to much or too little), VERY IMPORTANT is
socialising as isolation can severely worsen the situation.
Depending on the root cause feeling helpful and useful can help too. You might try if it works for you. Start small as I know how hard is to concentrate and to be creative.
If there are any good 12 step groups for the root cause near you you can try them too. Other then some lost time you can only gain from them.
Even if you can't really install and report bugs and stuff you can help yourself and us if you're active on MLs and forum. That might help you feeling connected and usefull. After all there's also a social component in a community. And I feel that Mageia community is good at it. So you can help us maintaining it.
Good luck and keep in touch.