Amir Mahmoud

About

The myth I would most like to dispel is that this is a matter of motivation, and that the answer is to push harder. Anyone who has tried pushing harder knows exactly how well that works, which is to say briefly and at real cost. Effort is not the missing ingredient. When getting out of bed has become the hardest part of the day, the problem is not that you have stopped caring. The machinery that normally makes ordinary actions feel possible has stopped supplying the usual assistance. We work on the machinery rather than on your character. Early on I was in crisis services, where I learned very quickly that lectures about effort help nobody at all. I have not delivered one since. If you have been pushing harder and getting nowhere, get in touch. Machinery can be repaired; character cannot be argued with.