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The awful thing about me and stressful times is that when I'm stressed, and reach a point of exhaustion that causes me to, basically, be unable to do anything 'useful' anymore ('useful things' also include mailing or calling friends, doing things that help maintain fannish infrastructure, etc.) I feel so damn *guilty* I can barely relax.

Take today: After a week in overdrive, I came home today, in the early afternoon, from a meeting of one of the group projects for my uni course (four group projects are sort of culminating this week and the next, resulting in a downright insane workload), and just sort of collapsed into bed. Slep for a couple of hours, or half-slept - and felt guilty all the way through. Because, well, if I'm not working on uni stuff, or job applications, why am I not using the time to, y'know, do all the other important things in my life that I keep claiming I *like* doing?

Shouldn't it be relaxing and pleasant enough to call a friend, write a couple of mails to people I truly and honestly miss, spend a couple of hours working on jewellery, or doing my job at The Collators' Den? These are all things I really care about. Why can't I do them when I need to relax? -- That's the question that keeps going round my mind, and makes me feel guilty. Guilty because I'm letting other people down, but also because I'm letting myself down. Because not doing things you love, not keeping in contact with people you love, that's letting yourself down, too.

(((Hmpf)))

Date: 2010-06-13 03:48 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Sei nicht so hart zu Dir selbst. Nach einer Woche harter Arbeit und Streß, Streß, Streß kollabiere ich auch. Rate mal, wer gestern UND heute jeweils zwei Stunden Siesta gemacht hat und seine To Do-Liste stäflichst vernachlässigt hat? Richtig! Ich. Du bist nicht alleine. Eins nach dem anderen. Du kämpfst diesen Kampf schon soo lange, da braucht man Zeit, bis es man es schafft, in der Freizeit nicht kraftlos zusammenzubrechen, sondern anzurufen, zu schreiben etc. Auch ich bin noch nicht an diesem Punkt.
Alles Liebe!
K.

Date: 2010-06-15 03:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anduranova.livejournal.com
Ich schließe mich da auch mal an. Mir geht es genau so. Wenn ich im Stress bin, dann vernachlässige ich ebenso meine sozialen Kontakte, all die Dinge die ich eigentlich tun wollte. Und ich fühle mich schuldig....
*hugs*
Also sei wirklich nicht so streng mit dir selbst.

Date: 2010-06-15 10:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dunkle-feuer.livejournal.com
Ich kann nur das bestätigen, was andere auch schon gesagt haben - du bist nicht alleine! Ich mache genau das Gleiche, auch wenn es bedeutet, dass ich nicht mehr nachkomme und auch enge Freunde schon mal vor den Kopf stoße. Aber manchmal geht es einfach nicht anders und irgendwann muss man auch einfach einmal eine Auszeit nehmen, auch von Dingen, die einem sonst Spaß machen (oder Spaß machen sollten). Geh nicht so hart mit dir selbst ins Gericht. Deine Freunde werden es verstehen! *hugs*

Date: 2010-06-25 08:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chamekke.livejournal.com
Well, if you're like me, you're preoccupied with being productive so much of the time that, once in a long while, you LONG for time that is completely free and unscheduled and not involved with something Useful and Virtuous.

I know I'm in this state when I'm doing something random (e.g. pottering about on the Internet with nothing particular in mind), and my husband suggests that I do something he knows I'll like, and I have to refrain from growling :-)

Somewhere I read the suggestion that when your mind starts going into the "should" spiel - "I should work on my fanfic, I should be potting out my tomato plants", etc. - a more skilful approach is to replace the word should with can. So it becomes: "I can work on my fanfic." (To which the response may be: Meh, not right now, though. Or: hey, think I will!)

Changing should to can helps remove the sense of obligation that makes undertaking the activity so unexpectedly oppressive, and leaves it purely as a matter of choice.

P.S. Edited to correct my crap HTML skills. Closing tags suck!
Edited Date: 2010-06-25 08:21 pm (UTC)

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