![]() Obviously, those issues can impact how well you function on the daily. That can include your risk of mental health issues, like anxiety, depression, burnout, sleep issues, and chronic stress, according to a meta-analysis of the effects of working long hours and overtime. It’s an essential investment in your overall well-being and can curb some of the negative consequences of overdoing it on your physical and mental health. And those heavy expectations can minimize your needs, forcing you to meet the demands of everyone else. Those factors are probably part of the reason you’re reading this right now.īut even if you totally believe that rest is important and the whole “I’ll sleep when I’m dead” thing is ridiculous, external pressures from your job, family responsibilities, and friendship obligations exist. And when we buy into that philosophy, feelings of anxiety and guilt creep up. Thanks to a glorified hustle culture that encourages us to always stay grinding and “getting to the bag” with “no days off,” many of us have rebranded rest in our brain as unproductive, a waste of time, or worse, a sign of laziness. I mean, meetings! Emails! Phone calls! Friends! Family! Financial pressure of living in an ever-uncertain potentially crumbling economy! Seriously, it feels like there is never enough time to truly stop, catch my breath, and chill. And when I do pause, any moment of rest is overtaken by thoughts of my to-do list or just some casual existential dread. ![]() Knowing how to relax was not even on my radar.Īs a result of that origin story, I’ve been on a relentless pursuit of working harder, producing more, and proving myself through my professional accomplishments as a licensed clinical psychologist.ĭespite helping others find balance, I often find myself struggling when it comes to taking a break, unwinding, and letting negative emotions like anger, anxiety, and fear take the backseat. So when it came time to enter the “real world” as a millennial amid the economic chaos of the Great Recession, my anxiety levels were off the charts. On top of that, the age-old, “You have to work twice as hard to get half as far,” was drilled into my head (if you’re in the BIPOC community, you get it) since I was a kid. He served in the Marine Corps and stressed the importance of hard work my whole life. ![]() Though I can’t pinpoint the exact moment I became one, I know it started with my dad.
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