I’m currently the only income earner in my household, so not working is unfortunately not an option. Suggestions very welcome. What worked for you?
Reasons I think I may be burning out:
- I stopped feeling emotions. I feel kind of hollow. Like I should cry, but I never can.
- I stopped drawing years ago and recently stopped knitting.
- I’m withdrawing socially. It’s too much energy. I’m even having trouble with responding to texts. I never had that problem before.
- I used to play these stupid little mobile games every day, but I’m forgetting to play them now.
Things I’m doing to mitigate burnout:
- My partner is doing the vast majority of housekeeping so I don’t have to. Including cooking.
- Trying to focus more on sleep. Currently adjusting sleep med, so that’ll take a little bit to acclimate to.
- Weekly yoga class
- Trying to go on interesting (but not super demanding) dates.
- Wearing comfortable clothes (was already doing that anyways).
More changes I could make:
- Partner is trying to get a job to release some of the burden on me, but the market is shit, he has a resume gap, and we can’t count on it being a sure thing.
- Changing jobs since my current one is very demanding. I am working on this, but like I said, the market is shit and it’s not a guarantee.
- Moving closer to work so I don’t have a 50 minute commute. Would take a lot of effort and planning and would take me away from friends, but may be necessary.
- As a last resort… getting accommodations at work. Not sure what that would look like as ownership is extremely against WFH. They also fired about 20% of their office staff yesterday so everyone is walking on eggshells. I don’t want the autism target on my back, there is no HR to act as a buffer.