If $H$ is an incomplete inner product space there is some closed subspace $H_0$ such that $H_0 \oplus H_0^{\bot} \neq H$

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I am pretty much stucked at this exercise. I have seen a couple of examples of it, but now I need to show that this is true in general.

I know it suffices to find some element $y \in H$ such that its distance with $H_0$ is not attained. To define a closed subspace in such an abstract space I have considered taking the kernel of some continuous linear functional, maybe the inner product itself.

Now, we should definetively take some Cauchy sequence $\{ x_i \}$ that converges to some $x$ which is not in $H$ and use it maybe to show that the distance of some $y$ with $H_0$ is not attained.

Could someone please help me out? Thanks!