Are you tired? You look tired.
I think maybe we are just...both very tired.
I am dire need of mental stamina.
I don’t really feel my age on most days,1 but I’ve been feeling the lack of mental energy these days. Part of it is because I’m coming off a really hard deadline for GUARDIANS 2, but the other part is I don’t think I exercised very good mental health habits when I was young and now all those bad habits are catching up with me.
Mental health is often couched in terms of mental illness, but I mean actual mental health and wellness. Things like meditation, adequate sleep, and all those other things I forewent in the process of this deadline. I went so hard for a prolonged 12 weeks that I felt smoke come out of my ears. My brain actually hurts. I feel like I’m stuck in a cycle of burnout, which is just not sustainable in the long run.
I know that as someone with ADHD living in perpetual fear of tedium, routines are both necessary and anathema to my existence. It’s something I’m working on …