Does anyone know how to actually take a break at that point? Like, I know as a rational person that I shouldn’t push myself to burnout due to anxiety. But I don’t know how to stop my brain hyper-focusing on it. ;_:
Meditation/mindfulness can really help If you get stuck ruminating about something and/or are dealing with anxiety. It was a fad recently, but there’s some real science behind a multitude of benefits from it. There’s a free app called Medito and I found the Headspace Guide to Meditation to be very informative.
I’ve started to get some mileage from making boundaries. For context, I have chronic fatigue so I do almost no work at all, always feel I should be doing more whenever I can, and hyper-focus to occasionally do things in ‘big’ (actually still small) chunks.
It’s helped me to make Saturdays strictly a rest day (I try to keep it strict!) and not do work even if I could do a bit. And I’ve started sometimes making evenings after 6 or 7pm no-work, even if my focus has just kicked in and I could do some stuff.
Making boundaries to preserve rest as a valuable thing, rather than always “you can rest if you absolutely have to but you really should be working,” has been helpful for me. And I find sometimes it helps regulate the hyper-focus -> burnout cycle.
Does anyone know how to actually take a break at that point? Like, I know as a rational person that I shouldn’t push myself to burnout due to anxiety. But I don’t know how to stop my brain hyper-focusing on it. ;_:
Meditation/mindfulness can really help If you get stuck ruminating about something and/or are dealing with anxiety. It was a fad recently, but there’s some real science behind a multitude of benefits from it. There’s a free app called Medito and I found the Headspace Guide to Meditation to be very informative.
I’m not sure how helpful this picture really is, and I suspect it’s really just shareable rather than actionable.
It’s really just saying take more breaks, which is similar to “work less”.
No shit. I’d feel great if I worked less.
I’ve started to get some mileage from making boundaries. For context, I have chronic fatigue so I do almost no work at all, always feel I should be doing more whenever I can, and hyper-focus to occasionally do things in ‘big’ (actually still small) chunks.
It’s helped me to make Saturdays strictly a rest day (I try to keep it strict!) and not do work even if I could do a bit. And I’ve started sometimes making evenings after 6 or 7pm no-work, even if my focus has just kicked in and I could do some stuff.
Making boundaries to preserve rest as a valuable thing, rather than always “you can rest if you absolutely have to but you really should be working,” has been helpful for me. And I find sometimes it helps regulate the hyper-focus -> burnout cycle.