What is the best route to take for someone who is too unmotivated & depressed to work?

Answer 1

Depends on who you are in relation to the person with the depression, now doesn't it? :) Lovely how vague that question is.

For the person with the depression--get help, the sooner you find and get on medication that works, the more function you will retain in spite of the mood disorder. Also remember that the mood disorder has real, honest-to-goodness physical symptoms and that those symptoms--inability to concentrate, lack of solid short-term memory, lack of motivation--are as much a part of the illness as the crappy mood and feeling out of sorts with life.

So you want to maintain some kind of employment--and medical benefits-- but at the same time may *have to* take either a cut in hours or a transfer, however temporary those might be, to lessen the burdens all around. Your burdens since you won't be as sharp as usual, and those your *heartless employers* will typically piss and moan endlessly about--being less than Mr. Ray of Sunshine around people (meaning, less smiley and less prone to fits of brown-nosing). Point is....if you are proactive on this one, as hard as it is going to be for you to stay focused and think of doing the right thing instead of the easy thing or instead of nothing at all, you will end up making it much easier to keep on working not just because you've made a good-faith effort to accommodate others the way *you'll* need accommodating, but also because it'll be your decision making and not something others are forcing on you--you'll have a better buy-in to the process courtesy of having more positive control of the situation, even if it is hard work and a big ball-of-suck currently.

For the person employing and/or cow-orking with the person with a potential mood disorder. You can suggest seeing a doctor and go along with what the doctor says, but really, you're *not* qualified to make a psychiatric diagnosis here. Not only that, but there is a Law on the books, called the Americans With Disabilities Act, and as much as you and your Butt-Buddies on Fox News want to hate on it and attack it and ignore it, fact remains it IS the Law, and you do have to obey it:

Meaning you do have to give your Depressed person a fair chance regardless of your personal and *unqualified* opinion on the validity of the existence of clinical depression, which IS in FACT a Mood disorder and NOT the "character flaw" you wish it were. It is NOT Laziness, ok?? Do you FatCat Bastids get it at all or do you Have No Shame Whatsoever??


*ahem*, But yeah. Point is, you are not a *god* over this person with a Mood disorder. Having a mental illness does not strip you of either your humanity or your civil rights and you would be WELL served to remember that in spite of being a bunch of CEO-class tightwad cheapasses, you ungodly rabid MONSTERS.

Answer 2

Somehow motivation needs to be created, since it is not naturally felt. Need achieves this quite well.
When faced with something we 'should do' or something we 'must do', he/she will only do what they must to survive in the manner they are accustomed.
Once given a taste of pride, and achievement, many depressed people can find a new will to keep on working.
Fulfilling and sometimes surpassing expectations can help his/her feelings of self worth, and pride.
Basically, if you can jump start the unmotivated and depressed individual by leaving them no choice, ultimately it could lead to a new path of self worth and a new will to make better choices for themselves.
Good Luck

Answer 3

Begging is a lucrative business as well.

Lets say a homeless person makes X dollars (on average) for every 10 people per hour and he begs Y amount (on average) of people every hour

lets say they do about Z hours of begging per week. Also, keep in mind that there are 52 weeks in a year

that means their annual income is (X/10)*Y*Z*52 = X*Y*Z*5.2

so if they beg about 20 hours per week (thats 2.85 hours per day)
and get about 2 dollars for every 10 people
and get about 30 people per hour (2 people per minute)
thus he makes 6 dollars per hour (more than minimum wage)

he can make 2*30*20*5.2=6,240 anually

if he were to invest the same amout of time that a regular worker does which is usually 40 hours per week and begs in a crowded place (NYC subway or something) and has really convincing stories (I need money for gas, my kid is sick, etc)

he could make $10 per 10 people (1 dollar per person, maybe too high) and lets say hes gets about 40 people per hour, 40 bucks per hour

he'd make 10*40*40*5.2=83200 dollars per year

Also, this is disregarding welfare and food stamps that he may have as well.

some one check the math, 83200 per year begging 40 hours per week sounds too good to be true. Thats probably the 99.999% percentile of income of all beggars.

Answer 4

buy motivation tapes.and give them suggestions where to put in applications .some peolple may not think they have the schooling skills to work again at another job.

Answer 5

Cab driver

Answer 6

Medication and maybe something that you don't have to leave your home to do.

Answer 7

fire them. when they get hungry they'll get motivated.