Do you need a lot of rest?

[entremet]

I'm not just talking about sleeping, although it can be that.

But over the years, I've noticed that I need more "downtime" than most people. All vitals are good, I don't have chronic fatigue or anything. I exercise and I eat right and do have energy for most of what life brings at me.

Yet, I do need the downtime to recharge. Also, it's more of a brain thing than a body thing. It can be difficult in the modern world, which is so fast paced, but I've developed systems of recovery. I get good sleep. I don't try to pack my weekends with crap. I take my PTO. I do buffer days for vacations as well.

After meetings, I'm just rocked lol. So I usually avoid back to back meetings.

Unfortunately, I feel that modern world is just made for fast paced tempo that tends to not match with my constitution. Moreover, at least in American culture, we have this obsession with speed and busyness.

 

[ShadBy]

yeah being an introvert is a drag

 

[Lumination]

I need a larger than normal amount of solitude. It's been an issue in past relationships. I spend a lot of PTO on just staycations. Idk, I just am how I am. I like it :)

 

[Fat4all]

no matter how much rest I get I still shitpost badly :/

 

[entremet]

yeah being an introvert is a drag

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I'm definitely introverted. I looked into it and social battery thing is a big thing.

But, even outside social recharge. I just need a recharge from thinking and life a lot of the time lol.

 

[Hours Left]

I'm positive I have chronic fatigue syndrome. I'm always tired. ALWAYS.

I've brought it up with my doctor multiple times but he always brushes it off. :/

 

[ShadBy]

I'm definitely introverted. I looked into it and social battery thing is a big thing.

But, even outside social recharge. I just need a recharge from thinking and life a lot of the time lol.

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Its why meetings are so draining for you. I'm sure you know this but introversion-extroversion dichotomy is not about shyness or comfortability. Its really about whether people sap you of energy or energize you. It really sucks how much of an advantage this gives extroverts lol.

 

[entremet]

Its why meetings are so draining for you. I'm sure you know this but introversion-extroversion dichotomy is not about shyness or comfortability. Its really about whether people sap you of energy or energize you. It really sucks how much of an advantage this gives extroverts lol.

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I do!

But I also need recharge from focused solitary work as well.

I'm positive I have chronic fatigue syndrome. I'm always tired. ALWAYS.

I've brought it up with my doctor multiple times but he always brushes it off. :/

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Have you done a sleep study?

 

[Jetsun Mila]

Yeah it's wildly different for everyone, and age plays a huge role as well. I was, for the last two weeks, visiting friends or on events every day after work, getting home around 10 to midnight and I feel exhausted right now. But a pal I know does similar things and said to me that he feels as fit as ever. It's just how it is.

 

[The Albatross]

Nah, not a big rester/sleeper. I get pretty minimal sleep at night, up a lot with the kids, used to get up with the dog at all hours, and I'm not much of a napper. I can count the number of naps I've taken in 5 years on one hand.

I used to sleep pretty late, always struggled to get up for work and get to work on time in the morning, and then on the weekends I'd cruise past 10, 11am every morning. But after getting a dog I got used to getting up at... 5:30 with him... might go back to sleep for an hour but not really, and now with kids I pretty much wake up at 6:30, might sit around in bed semi-awake/semi-asleep, and thern I'm usually "up" at about 7:15 or so, weekdays or weekends. LAst weekend I was at a wedding solo and even though I *wanted* to sleep past 8 or 9, I couldn't.

 

[Hours Left]

Have you done a sleep study?

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No, my doctor has no interest in trying to fix the issue. Getting him to do anything proactively is a Herculean task.

 

[lampeater]

I've gotten more and more exhausted after hour+ work meetings, I'm out of it for hours - if they're in the mid afternoon I'm basically mentally absent for the rest of the workday. For one-on-one meetings at least I've made explicit requests to keep them within an hour or shorter and it's helped take some of the mental fatigue out of it, but it doesn't always work. Meetings have been kind of detrimental to my productivity.

 

[entremet]

No, my doctor has no interest in trying to fix the issue. Getting him to do anything proactively is a Herculean task.

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Can you see another doctor? Not sure where you in the world, so you may be limited I guess. Insurance?

 

[Ripcord]

I abandoned the idea of meaningful rest sometime in the late 80s/early 90s. There's so much to do that I'll never get to die.

 

[Hours Left]

Can you see another doctor? Not sure where you in the world, so you may be limited I guess. Insurance?

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I'm in Canada so it's free thankfully, but it's risky to leave your family doctor to try and find another, because then you have to start all over again with your prescriptions, etc. Most doctors are already full too, so I'm lucky that I do have someone I can see, even if he's stubborn.

I just wanted to vent a bit about it really lol.

 

[julia crawford]

i need time alone every single day, this is not easy

 

[Protagonist]

You're the normal one by acknowledging this. It's your body telling you something, so it's best to listen to it. Overexertion is a thing.

 

[scottbeowulf]

yeah being an introvert is a drag

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yup. it's like my lifeforce has been sucked out most days. being around many people is like running a marathon.

 

[tangeu]

I don't think I'm ever not tired on some level.

 

[Fat4all]

honest I say I don't get enough rest , but whose responsibility is it that I gotta wake up in 5 hours

Mine

it's my fault

 

[Paroni]

Generally yes, I do need my alone time and quiet evenings when nothing happens.

 

[VorpalNonsense]

very introverted, need a lot of downtime in life, yes
some weeks (like this week) feel like they're tough to get through even if nothing that tough really happened. just getting through daily life can feel like a big effort sometimes

 

[AlgusUnderdunk]

A nice coma would do me well.

 

[PatAndTheCat]

no I am prescribed adderall

 

[Squarehard]

I'm surprised how little rest I can run on nowadays as a result of my insomnia.

Sleep at 5am wake up at 8am, still feel fine, though I wouldn't exactly say this is a good thing...

 

[PaulieWalnutsASMR]

This is definitely me. I'm training to be a speech therapist and am an introvert so a day of that takes a toll on me.

 

[LProtagonist]

Yeah. I need to crash for most of the day after work. I'm an introvert and I teach though, so that probably has something to do with it.

 

[Anth0ny]

Tired literally all the time no matter what

 

[Doggg]

That's basically all I want to do in my free time.

 

[grang]

View: https://www.tiktok.com/@petsmeowwoof/video/7266983693594397995?lang=en


...yes

 

[Reversed]

I used to spartan cram my schedule by doing all sorts of things but there was always something I fell behind. So I decided to have off workout days and the like, and it's been going swell so far?? Dunno but workload has gotten manageable that way so god bless.

no matter how much rest I get I still shitpost badly :/

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Peak is early 30s methinks

 

[Strike]

Started feeling it in the back half of my twenties. Now I need at least 2 days after a work day to fully recover.

 

[shoal]

no matter how much rest I get I still shitpost badly :/

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i like your posts <3

 

[Mekanos]

If I don't have anything planned the worst possible thing is to spontaneously make me do something.