Depression · 5 min read
On the Mondays when I couldn't get out of bed.
What a dog adds to a depression protocol that a phone alarm cannot.
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An alarm clock is easy to snooze. A dog is harder.
This is not a joke about dogs. It is a small observation about the behavioral-activation literature — which is, at its core, about finding actions small enough to execute on a bad day.
A dog is a behavioral activation machine that doesn't understand Mondays.