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“I Suffer From Depression.” Here’s What I Am Learning.

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I Don’t Have Time for This

July 15, 2022 by Depression Is Not My Boss Leave a Comment

I have to much to do today to think about self-care

It’s called a day off for a reason.

However, for me, it is a race to get everything done in the 15 hours I will be awake. I focus on the day part, a day without going to work. But I completely ignore the OFF part. I have already been up an hour and 10 minutes. And I have:

  • Checked my email from work (even though I am off)
  • Took my medication, washed my face, and did other bathroom related activities
  • Made coffee after cleaning the pot, the coffee maker.
  • Went to the garage and got out the birdseed and filled the feeders in front of the house
  • Filled my coffee mug and grabbed my laptop
  • Took both to the front porch to watch the birds, and rabbits having their breakfast.
  • Oh, and I cleaned up part of the kitchen table from my raspberry jelly canning activity of a few days go.

Somehow, I still feel as if I am behind.

My coffee mug is empty, and I want to go in and refill it. But I want to write before going to the gym, weeding the vegetable garden, putting the canning pot and equipment away, and working in my home office.

Around 5:30PM, my wife, daughter and I are going to the Barboursville Ruins to see the opening night performance of Shakespeare’s As You Like It. I am really looking forward to being with a live audience and doing so under the stars is a cool touch. Plus being outside reduces the risk of contracting covid from another patron.

I feel like today is supposed to include self-care time.

The frantic, get it all done on my day off feeling is not self-care. Crowding as much as possible into my waking hours today is, however, what I am intent on doing. I did not go to bed last night anticipating a mad dash from the moment I got out of bed.

But the reality is that is what I am doing.

And while I really want to explore this idea more, I have a list of things to finish and a finite amount of time to do them. So will make this a short entry and move on to the gym, the garden, the canning supplies and paying the bills.

Self-care will come this evening at the Barboursville Ruins when I spend the evening with family and William Shakespeare.

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