I’m feeling overwhelmed. I haven’t been able to balance my crappy fulltime job, my depression, my doom scrolling and my hobbies. I feel stuck. I want to get back into writing again. But every time it feels possible stuff gets chaotic again and I get pulled away. Then it’s hard again. I have a project that means a lot to me that I want to do. But I just feel so tired and defeated all the time. I just don’t have energy left outside of work and when I do, I just can’t seem to focus it. Instead, I end up sleeping or wasting hours just mindlessly scrolling social media. I don’t really know where to start or what to do. But I want to find a way to get out of that and get back to doing the things I find meaningful and enjoyable. I’m just at a loss. Has anyone else dealt with something similar? Any suggestions of where to start?
Well, I can tell you that ur condition is not uncommon, as a lot of us are in that situation or were, as we are burnt out from work, then we go into recovery, when we are finally free to do as we wish. I would suggest doing a little of what you want to do every day, it’s what I’ve had to do after being so burned out and in the same situation as yourself. You won’t be able to do it at the level you were at before. I know it all too well, as I was doing a thousand words daily for one story and two stories daily, being so burned out and having so much going on, keeping me from writing and doing my hobbies.
Balance is very hard to do, I know all too well, being so burned out, I ended up in a pretty bad depression not even being able to enjoy the hobbies that I enjoy
Would it be possible to set up some sacred time just for yourself? Like maybe early in the morning if you’re too burned out at night. You could go to bed earlier and then get up a half hour earlier and save that time slot just for you. You deserve it! If that’s not a good time, then maybe you could write over your lunch break or whenever you can fit it in? You need to block out some period of time every day where you just pamper yourself and do the things you want to do, and not let anyone else interfere with that time period. How to do it and when becomes the challenge. But you can do it! ( ˆ◡ˆ)۶ ٩(˘◡˘ )
I feel very much the same way and it sucks. Making time for yourself or writing or whatever it is you want to do is difficult. It helps to start small and not allow yourself to feel guilt if you can’t do as much as you want to. That guilt only makes you associate the writing or “me” time with negative feelings and makes it harder to do. It’s okay if you only do five minutes a day, or a week. As long as you are able to do some when you can, you are making progress. Slow progress is still good progress. Baby steps.