A personal reflection on mental overload, scattered thinking and the power of choosing one priority to regain focus, progress and confidence.
Tag Archives: mental health
Hope 2
TLDR: This post deals with suicide. If in immediate danger, call the emergency services phone number or go to the nearest hospital or police station or reach out to a trusted person. If you’re having suicidal thoughts, copy out and follow this template: I commit to staying alive For: If in immediate danger I will:Continue reading “Hope 2”
Precipice
Now I understand my uncle’s struggle—the lack of clarity and support. A heavy mix of guilt and shame, and a brutal, devastating implosion. No logic remains. A lonely stranger in a foreign land. All of this self-deserved. I’m so sorry.
Change
If you want to thrive, you must first survive. To achieve these outcomes, you must first be willing to adapt. There is no growth without change. If you do not adapt you will get stuck or left behind.
Mental Health – A spike in cases, threat of lockdown: my feelings. Update: near lock-down
I feel that an update is necessary as things have changed since my last post. I will not be writing much about the general situation now as I feel that most people have already lived through something like this and the news is covering this. Instead, I will focus more on my family’s and my situation and my feelings about it.
Mental Health – A spike in cases, threat of lockdown: my feelings
In light of the invisible threat hanging over society, I will be discussing Covid-19 related anxiety and depression, possible antidotes (remember I am not a trained professional), what happened recently in my region, how I feel about it, and the silver lining.
Overwork
It turns out there is such a thing as working too much. I think I have finally found my limit. I am at a crossroads. If I continue down this path I fear it will break me. Mentally or physically. I can already see the cracks forming. When you are inundated with stress and/or lackContinue reading “Overwork”
Flying in a pandemic and self-quarantine
New Zealand to Taiwan The following is based on the rules and conditions in March/April 2020. To stay up to date on the current rules, see the links at the end. It has been just over a year since I left New Zealand to move back to Taiwan. This is my experience of flying inContinue reading “Flying in a pandemic and self-quarantine”
Stress
Stress can cause a whole range of problems, but you can overcome it by changing your thinking about stress and building systems and tools to deal with it. Each time you overcome a stressful situation you build resilience…
…The tough part is getting to the other side. How do you maintain clear thinking and overcome the challenges you face?
Self-analysis – Depression: a “depressive episode”
That was intense. What happened? If you read my last post “Depression: a “depressive episode”” you will see that I found myself in a pretty dark place. Things escalated very quickly to the point I felt unable to control the situation. It had been a long and gradual process that crept up on me andContinue reading “Self-analysis – Depression: a “depressive episode””
Dreams
See “Time management” for productivity and efficiency tips. Background When I was younger, I had big dreams and I was uncompromising on achieving these. I did not like the idea of being tied down to a single job or debt-forced to work, unable to take risks, fearful of losing the ability to pay a mortgageContinue reading “Dreams”
Depression: Tiredness
One of the most pervasive symptoms of depression I experience every single day is feeling tired. No matter how many hours of sleep I get, I always feel tired when I wake up and also throughout the day. I have experienced this since I was in high school. Clarity vs brain fog Tiredness affects everything.Continue reading “Depression: Tiredness”
