Dear Diary, the state of me

[samvara]

I've taken a few sick days in the last month and headed to my GP last week to describe my feelings and life. She told me to take a week off immediately and I'm glad she did because this week has all the symptoms of a really bad cold without the infection (exhausted, floaty, headaches, throat trying to close up, desperate need for sleep, vague etc.) *grins* This is in itself interesting to me because it seems the cold part is just the snot.

I'm also thinking that it's probably time to grow out of the push-till-you-collapse lifestyle... I wonder how you do that.

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[nerdus-maximus2.livejournal.com]

"I'm also thinking that it's probably time to grow out of the push-till-you-collapse lifestyle... I wonder how you do that."

::grins:: - Just say no!!

Did you find out whether there was anything behind the symptoms?

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Trying!

Blood test results back on Thursday.

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

Step 1. Push-'til-you're-about-to-collapse
Step 2. Put your feet up for a bit.

We've got a month to go on this one honey, take care of yourself and I'll try and do the same. If you're pulling long sessions, ask for frequent sanity checks from the committee.

I was very glad to see you on Sunday, but you did look thin and tired from my own face-down position on your couch.

*hugs*

And just think what mynxii would do to us if we let you break while she was away! *shivers*

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Thank you - you've all been amazingly supportive and everything I could ask for *grins* it's a good couch.

[evilmattikinz.livejournal.com]

*hug* *hug* *hug* *hug* *hug*

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Mmm *hugs back*

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

This is no doubt a personality type thing too! But it's also a learnable skill, I think. I'm good at this one these days, and haven't had a day off work in eight years and counting. I just make sure I allocate about 5% of my attention all the time to monitoring my body and mind are feeling, and adjust my bedtime/diet/exercise/alone time/socialising accordingly. It pays off, because not only do I almost always feel well, but I never have the enforced downtime from being sick.

Watching a colleague at work deal with a nervous breakdown, and many other people deal with the consequences of getting physically out of shape, have convinced me all the more of how important this is.

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

This probably gives the incorrect impression that I work 5 days a week, when the fact that I usually don't is no doubt part of the reason I can almost always stay well!

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

I'm eying off a job at work that would allow me to go to 80%, more and more I'm thinking that what I don't have is *time*.

The 5% rule sounds very sensible. I think I also need to develop a sense of when I'm tired versus when I'm depressed because I've learned to ignore the latter and push on through. I tend to judge me when that happens.

To be fair, things are hitting me on all fronts right now, no single thing is the cause and some I could not have anticipated.

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

You certainly have enough other interets to fill an extra day of free time!

Of course you can't plan for everything. Also, I'm sure it isn't good policy to focus so much on staying healthy that you neglect to live to the fullest — I'm sure I'm sometimes guilty of that.

[mynxii.livejournal.com]

*love love love love*

If you figure it out - let K know :P

I will do everything I can to help you (and the rest of the committee) and I know that's returned (which is why sc2009 are collectively awesome)

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

*loves*

I will and you are :p