Beloved ones. You feel this way BECAUSE you donāt do anything all day. Whether mental illness holds you hostage, or an aspect of neurodiversity says, āHmm not today!ā Or if your self-care day turns into weeks of paralysis, or you just take the damn day offā¦chances are, at the end of the ādo nothingā period, you will feel more overwhelmed and exhausted than you feel you have a right to be. You are borne down by in insupportable weight of time passing by, empty of anything meaningful. Panic can set in, or despair, or guilt, or numbness, or mania, or any/all combinations thereofā¦it hits us all differently.
If this feeling is bothering you, see if you can find the energy/focus/spoons to do ~something with your hands~
It doesnāt have to be quote-PRODUCTIVE-unquote. You can color (a real page with real writing implements, even if it sucks). You can massage your hands and feet with good-smelling lotion. You can go outside and stack little rocks on top of each other until they fall down. Arrange leaves into a heart shape. Count the anthills in the sidewalk near your house. Draw on concrete with chalk. Paint your nails or toes. The more useless and non-taxing for you, the better.
The point is, you ~complete a physical task~
Your animal-brain doesnāt know that this task has no āproductiveā value! Certain parts of your brain canāt necessarily parse that sort of thing!!! The deep wiring in your noggin senses that you initiated a task, spent time & energy on it, and completed it! Even something as small as the ideas above can start to re-wire your brain back into functionality when youāre overwhelmed and paralyzed. The biggest part is to engage with the PHYSICAL WORLD, because while our phones & computers & tablets can be serotonin-generators, the deep ancient-animal wiring in our brain still doesnāt quite interpret it as REAL. (This is also why practical VFX are always more charming than CGI, but thatās a rant for another time.)
Someone who has fought this battle many times before (and studied it, and researched it in others, and almost literally has a Masters degree in motivating the unwilling)
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