Ask HN: How is your mental health? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How is your mental health?

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Post by polalavik » Tue, Apr 18, 2023, 9:54 PM UTC

moomoo11 wrote: post #27

Good for like 10-15 days then I crash for like 2-5 days. The worst crash lasted almost two months. Not sure what to do different. The crashes are the worst because I get nothing done. Work/exercise/chores/etc. I just have zero motivation. I don’t even go outside. Somehow that goes away and then for the next 10-15 days it’s crunch mode making up the lost time and then putting out like 5x the work I normally do. I’ll b…

Are you me? I cycle exactly like this. I only work in burst mode as well. completely useless between bursts.

I feel stressed out when I’m getting nothing done, but can’t bring myself to do anything. I always manage to get a new wind and get it done somehow.

Re: Ask HN: How is your mental health?

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Post by fbrncci » Tue, Apr 18, 2023, 11:51 PM UTC

I feel like I spend the entire pandemic, trying to understand my mind and my place in the world better. Than 2022 was the best year of my life, in all aspects except perhaps social one. Then towards the end of 2022 and now in 2023, I am trending back to a baseline, old mental issues are coming back to me. But overall I feel like I am such an huge improvement over myself.

I'm struggling getting back into what helped me throughout the pandemic (many, many walks, a lot of meditation, and journaling), but I am slowly getting there and I feel like I am rebounding on that growth mindset again. How great 2022 was, due all the work I put in the period before, is just how I would like life to be all the time.

Re: Ask HN: How is your mental health?

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Post by swah » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 12:14 PM UTC

Not great. I feel like I have a too-good-to-be-true remote job that I might get booted from and won't find anything close to it in terms of environment or salary. Still I have been "dropping the ball"...