FreyasSpirit
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RE: Finding a balance...
We have been experimenting with the approach of reducing responsibilities as much as possible and taking time for ourselves when we feel overwhelmed. In the most extreme cases, we isolate (leave all irc channels, cancel all social plans) and plan to do nothing other than eat sleep and work. Sometimes, this leads to us averaging 12h/day in bed for a week.
We don't believe this technique is sustainable long term, but it does a good job of helping us get through a week of stress. It also buys time for us to figure out what is going wrong if we do not know or buys time for stressful things to resolve themselves.
Prior to this year, we had a tendency to seek hypomania to get us through stressful times. At the end of last year, our life started falling apart and there were outlets for our hypomania which allowed us to not crash for far too long. When we did eventually crash, it was a conscious decision because using hypomania to make our life stop falling apart was not working. We took a month for ourselves and based on that experience, now believe that isolating and taking time for self is a much better way than hypomania to avoid the anxiety. We do believe that going hypomanic is a useful coping strategy that can get us through a stressful short term solution, but we watch it very closely because if we do not specifically allocate time for crashing afterwards, then it can be very bad.
In general, unless there is a very specific short term problem with a definite end date, we prefer the first method of reducing responsibilities and allowing ourselves to go splat because it leaves us in a much better state when it is over.
Rereading this, we feel a bit brain fogged and feel like it is rambling and probably missing some information. We will probably look at this later and see if there is anything more we want to say.
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09-26-2015, 07:42 PM |
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