Skip to main content
Close Button
Donate
  • Replies 10 replies
  • Subscribers 101 subscribers
  • Views 772 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Related
Hints and tips
  • To quote someone's message, first select/highlight the relevant text, and then use the Quote button that appears
  • To "mention" someone, type @ followed by the start of the forum name, and choose from the list; that person will get a notification of being mentioned

What recharges you?

Just some other guy
over 3 years ago

I have been reading / watching youtube videos about burnout, shut downs and melt downs recently.  Then violetdr3amer’s post “Burnout/sensory overload getting worse as one gets older?” put a question in my mind…

What recharges you?

I don’t mean what do you enjoy – because some things I enjoy don’t actually increase my energy levels. E.g. I had a 2 week holiday at the start of 2021 (driving around Tasmania doing some bush walks and seeing what there was to see) – I enjoyed it but found it stressful, thus returned with less energy than I had before going…

So what do you find increases your energy levels?

So far, I think these work for me:

  • Stretches
  • Walking
  • Watching a good movie
  • Reading a good (fiction) book

I’m after ideas!

Parents
  • over 3 years ago

    Sleeping. I tend to need more sleep than other people, especially when suffering from burnout. Or just quiet time by myself with nobody else around. In lockdown I started going on walks by myself at nighttime when it was quiet and nobody was around, which was nice. It's not really possible any more because now there are always drunk people on the streets.

    Also rewatching a TV show I've seen many times before is the sort of thing I can handle when burnt out. For me watching a TV show I haven't seen before can be almost like socialising, it still requires my brain to interpret relationships and speech and guess people's motives and deal with unexpected things, whereas rewatching a sitcom I've seen 10 times before is like a comfort, and calming.

    I'm always watching the same shows over and over, especially when I'm stressed in life.

Reply
  • over 3 years ago

    Sleeping. I tend to need more sleep than other people, especially when suffering from burnout. Or just quiet time by myself with nobody else around. In lockdown I started going on walks by myself at nighttime when it was quiet and nobody was around, which was nice. It's not really possible any more because now there are always drunk people on the streets.

    Also rewatching a TV show I've seen many times before is the sort of thing I can handle when burnt out. For me watching a TV show I haven't seen before can be almost like socialising, it still requires my brain to interpret relationships and speech and guess people's motives and deal with unexpected things, whereas rewatching a sitcom I've seen 10 times before is like a comfort, and calming.

    I'm always watching the same shows over and over, especially when I'm stressed in life.

Children