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First off, don't worry. No one is forcing you to create. I have had songs that took a few minutes to write and some that took years.
Listen to more music. Listen to bands you have never heard before. Listen to styles of music ou have never heard before.
Play another instrument. Learn piano or cello or something. Give your fingers and brain something else to work on.
Keep a phone with voice memos about your person at all times. I've written some good songs based on melodies or situations I dreamed, ones that came to me as I made a cuppa, or ones that happened at work. Hum them and record them. Some will be shit on the second and third listen, but some will be worth further work. I sometimes get one riff for a chorus and then months later get one for a verse.
Get new virtual instruments, samples etc. sometimes one new sound is enough to fire those neurons.
Put yourself in a new and uncomfortable situation. The brain cannot create when everything is all fine.
Buy a capo. Try it out on different frets to fire the imagination. Try different tunings
Relax and RTFO.