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Post by wiganshrew2 on Feb 17, 2005 15:49:32 GMT 1
I admit I often forget how old I am! Mentally, I feel about half my age at least!! I'm often buzzing with ideas, get hooked on things and pour so much emotional energy into them, I sometimes get really wiped out! I'm not even working this week, either. The schools are on half term- and we've had a short break in Scotland. I just feel vaguely as if I'm sickening for something, no energy. Little bit of a gippy stomach, but nothing dramatic. The main thing is feeling drained. I WANT TO BE FIT FOR SATURDAY!!!!!!!! I've got to put my money where my mouth is and sing my heart out, and shout encouragement!! It's supposed to be my "Girls' night out tonight", too. No alcohol - that might be wise- or even give it a miss.
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Post by El Huracán!!!! on Feb 17, 2005 16:03:34 GMT 1
In my year since entering the real world I think I have got my self to the stage of “Burnout” twice
Once that had me laid up with a really nasty illness that I just could not fight off for about 2 weeks!! And the other where I was so physically and mentally tired I was just sleeping – everywhere (work courses, train, all the time I was home ect)
But I find you can see it coming a bit more now – being young the hardest thing I found was to moderate what I get up to – no doubt that I could spend 4 or 5 nights out a week and burn out again really quickly but since crimbo I have started to be more sensible and forcing my self to sleep more (not easy when I think I have mild insomnia!!!)
Tips to beat it – do the stuff you want to now what you feel you have to, and enjoy your leisure activity (be it footy or something else). Burnout is not far removed from breakdown so I have been told in the work place and its not something I want to experience to be honest. And most important – Get more sleep – a much neglected part of my (and others I know) its so important to your mental states its untrue!! I know I done get enough and that’s half my problem!
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Post by wiganshrew2 on Feb 17, 2005 18:41:12 GMT 1
I'm not feeling too bad, now! Just sat and did nothing all afternoon- except watch Sky Sports hoping to see Dave, KittenKate ..etc...!! The last time I really DID suffer total, total exhaustion was after my mother died, and I'd been looking after her for years, with help from local authority carers and my daughters. Then, after my our youngest had been to Uni -twice, and I'd lost work as my mother got worse, I had to look for another part-time job quickly. Then I had to study for a Post-Grad Certificate in Special Needs- two part time jobs and a course at John Moore's Uni, Liverpool. I remember (just!!) getting a casserole I'd out out of the oven ready for tea serving it up- and then saying, "That's it, I'm going to bed!"- I was too exhausted to eat, even! It was not a good year- then I got hooked on Shrewsbury Town F.C- and my life took a turn for the better! These days, I don't have to do that. It's my own fault, I don't treat a holiday as a time to unwind, I get wound up either worrying who I ought to be visiting, or having to stay- or doing things that SHOULD be fun to a ridiculous degree! (Because I'm getting no younger and there's so much I want to do!! ![;)](http://www.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/winking/winking0070.gif) ) I wonder, sometimes if people who working full-time in the 80s, got brainwashed with Maggie Thatcher's work ethic. That government loaded people with guilt- you could never work hard enough, long enough or fast enough!!!
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