Further update
Aug. 12th, 2021 05:08 am So, guess what, it wasn't just Lyme disease, it was anaemia. BAD anaemia...
This is a public service announcement: iron deficiency can make you depressed. If you feel scatterbrained, and always tired and out of spoons for no particular reason, and depressive, try looking into that possibility. Obviously anaemia has other symptoms but one of the terrible things about it is that they're all fairly minor on the surface and it makes even your brain go weird and then you don't put things together. I had it bad some years ago and have to watch out for it now, now that I know what the other things feel like, too. My sister has it now, worse. I think I might try to put together some descriptions of some of the odder, less-listed but typical symptons we've both experienced so other people may also know what to look out for and maybe realise they have it? It's apparently pretty widespread, especially in women (for obvious reasons).
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edenfalling who says August is the month nobody takes vacation, in my world for the past five years it's the month when everybody takes vacation. I'm starting my two weeks off on Monday. The two weeks before were supposed to be light work as things are getting finished and orders are petering out, but yesterday it suddenly ended up being "light work but I had to stay at work for nearly twelve hours as things needed to be finished."
Like, mostly doing nothing in particular but I had to be there and watch over things. So I took that opportunity to do some sorting out of myself, among other things making some mind maps which my sister recently suggested as a way to organise my tangled mind processes.
Turns out that yeah, it's a great way to put down all the scattered interconnected ideas I carry in my head for WIPs and ongoing stories and crafts that can never quite be put down in a linear manner. So I'm definitely going to do a lot more of that during vacation. And hopefully it will help me work on some of my ongoing stories. This is also a public service announcement of sorts. If you have trouble writing chronologically and filling in the gaps even when you have vague ideas of what needs to happen... maybe mind maps are a good way to fill the gaps? Not sure. I have yet to see how it works for me more longterm. At the very least, though, I think it may be my best way to battle block in that my blocks often aren't necessarily a lack of ideas (as most advice on conquering blocks assumes) but rather a lack of ideas on how to make the existing ideas work organically... and mind maps are kind of an organic way of organising thought.
I'm curious to see if it will also help with the process of processing, as touched upon in the previous posts... On that front, I have a while ago decided to write a list of all the little(ish) things that have been annoying me recently and that I haven't really had time to process because of all the big things, and then ceremoniously burn said list. So I started on that, too. It's a long list and it's definitely not complete but even just putting it down is quite therapeutic, and I'm lilooking forward to burning it because... fire is also a bit therapeutic, for me, in terms of things like watching a candlelight or a campfire.
... I just wish said future ceremonious burning could stop some of the (biggerish) things on the list.
This is a public service announcement: iron deficiency can make you depressed. If you feel scatterbrained, and always tired and out of spoons for no particular reason, and depressive, try looking into that possibility. Obviously anaemia has other symptoms but one of the terrible things about it is that they're all fairly minor on the surface and it makes even your brain go weird and then you don't put things together. I had it bad some years ago and have to watch out for it now, now that I know what the other things feel like, too. My sister has it now, worse. I think I might try to put together some descriptions of some of the odder, less-listed but typical symptons we've both experienced so other people may also know what to look out for and maybe realise they have it? It's apparently pretty widespread, especially in women (for obvious reasons).
Contrary to
edenfalling who says August is the month nobody takes vacation, in my world for the past five years it's the month when everybody takes vacation. I'm starting my two weeks off on Monday. The two weeks before were supposed to be light work as things are getting finished and orders are petering out, but yesterday it suddenly ended up being "light work but I had to stay at work for nearly twelve hours as things needed to be finished."Like, mostly doing nothing in particular but I had to be there and watch over things. So I took that opportunity to do some sorting out of myself, among other things making some mind maps which my sister recently suggested as a way to organise my tangled mind processes.
Turns out that yeah, it's a great way to put down all the scattered interconnected ideas I carry in my head for WIPs and ongoing stories and crafts that can never quite be put down in a linear manner. So I'm definitely going to do a lot more of that during vacation. And hopefully it will help me work on some of my ongoing stories. This is also a public service announcement of sorts. If you have trouble writing chronologically and filling in the gaps even when you have vague ideas of what needs to happen... maybe mind maps are a good way to fill the gaps? Not sure. I have yet to see how it works for me more longterm. At the very least, though, I think it may be my best way to battle block in that my blocks often aren't necessarily a lack of ideas (as most advice on conquering blocks assumes) but rather a lack of ideas on how to make the existing ideas work organically... and mind maps are kind of an organic way of organising thought.
I'm curious to see if it will also help with the process of processing, as touched upon in the previous posts... On that front, I have a while ago decided to write a list of all the little(ish) things that have been annoying me recently and that I haven't really had time to process because of all the big things, and then ceremoniously burn said list. So I started on that, too. It's a long list and it's definitely not complete but even just putting it down is quite therapeutic, and I'm lilooking forward to burning it because... fire is also a bit therapeutic, for me, in terms of things like watching a candlelight or a campfire.
... I just wish said future ceremonious burning could stop some of the (biggerish) things on the list.
