Warning signs - Prevention - Getting back on track
Warning signs: • Unusual fatigue • Irritability, frustration, sudden anger • Sleep disturbances • Decreased concentration • Diffuse aches and pains • loss of appetite
Prevention: - Monitor your lifestyle - Don't isolate yourself or disconnect from social life, family, and friends - Learn to say NO -I would ad to really Pay attention to subtle signs like : a little voice telling you “it's too much”, a friend pointing out that "you're always at 200%, or “You’re a brain on legs”. If you recognize yourself also in the fact that you never want to take a break, ie to just "chill ; or you find no interest in anything that is not "productive" ; you like to feel indispensable, therefore you’re always doing more.
Getting back on track: Change your lifestyle (realizing that this is necessary to change something is already an essential first step. Then, get support for the initial changes to implement). This should include : - Have a long break to tally recover - See a doctor
Then, this could include: - sorting through your activities - learning to take breaks, pauses - rediscovering pleasure - changing your diet so that it actually gives you energy and recharges your batteries - developing a new relationship with sleep... - Taking time for friends or family (and enjoying it!) - Worry less about what others think, everyone has their own path
The Sun Touch by Margot 