I find it amusing that people search for the cure for cancer when it's right under their nose. What is this secret cure? Why, stop eating, drinking, and breathing toxins, of course.

Yet that is a solution no one wants to consider (people because it requires a change of habitual behavior, corporations because it cuts profits). Instead, they want to get cancer, and then try to remove it.

The same can be said of depression. Exercise, medications, meditation, self-help books, etc., may help to treat some of the symptoms. But if the underlying causes are not addressed, the 'cure' either won't work, will rebound as a deeper depression, or will appear to work but leave your life hollow (you may go to work and feel adequate energy, but you won't be truly happy).

Also, depression is a natural response to negativity. When we're feeling negative, this is a poor time to analyze our lives (everything will look bad), or really to take any actions at all. We are likely to hurt ourselves or others. This is why the body goes into a low energy state. It basically sedates us for our own protection, and to get us to go into a state of re-creation. It stops our DOING and encourages our BEING.

Drugs override this feeling of fatigue, without addressing the negativity, which is why they often lead to suicide and psychotic behavior.

Trust your body. It knows what it's doing. If you're feeling lethargic and not like working, then rest, and don't work. Ahhhh... but this gets into your fears. What will happen if you don't work, if you just laze for a bit?

To be honest, it doesn't sound like you are happy with your work, at least for now. Anytime you start using force on yourself, such as forcing yourself to work, it will come back to you in some form. Force begets resistance.

I think you need to get into the question of what you really feel like doing, and give yourself permission to do that, even if it seems financially dangerous, etc.

Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsch is an excellent book - it begins with a suicidal person having a conversation with God. You'll receive a lot of insights there (it's not religious, and can benefit you regardless of your beliefs).

The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle is also a good book for understanding the mind, and letting go. It is not a conventional self-help book. It is deeper than that. It won't tell you how to feel, merely help you look at where your feelings are coming from. Again, it begins with a man in utter despair.

I think sitting down with these books would be far more beneficial than forcing yourself to complete some project. The fact that you are tired and don't want to do them may not be the problem. The problem may be that you are unwilling to accept the truth of that feeling, and what it implies. There is a child inside of you who is tired of doing other people's 'busy work' and wants to LIVE.