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When self-care advice ignores cognitive limitations

My depression makes it hard to shower regularly and my therapist keeps telling me self-care is important but she does not understand that the executive function just is not there.

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The gap between knowing what helps and being able to execute it reveals how traditional wellness frameworks fail to account for neurological differences.

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