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Video call (zoom, teams) exhaustion anyone?

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Are others finding them selves in a state of shutdown if you do more than 3 hours in a day on video calls? This is becoming a serious issue for me with doing my job remotely. 

That plus growing sensitivity to noise from household appliances!

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  • This is interesting, because I was seriously starting to wonder if the whole not being able to cope with video call was just me. I don't know if I have a shutdown exactly (new to all this) but after a video call I feel hollow - like my thoughts and feelings have all been put on pause, and I can't really compute anymore. I don't consciously worry about the calls I have to be on, but I've noticed I tend to get physically ill leading up to them. I mentioned this to a friend last week, who suggested a Zoom Christmas party, and she seemed to get offended, like the idea was preposterous and I had to be making it up and not being supportive. 

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  • This is interesting, because I was seriously starting to wonder if the whole not being able to cope with video call was just me. I don't know if I have a shutdown exactly (new to all this) but after a video call I feel hollow - like my thoughts and feelings have all been put on pause, and I can't really compute anymore. I don't consciously worry about the calls I have to be on, but I've noticed I tend to get physically ill leading up to them. I mentioned this to a friend last week, who suggested a Zoom Christmas party, and she seemed to get offended, like the idea was preposterous and I had to be making it up and not being supportive. 

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