Coping Mechanisms
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Understanding Workplace Burnout: A Common Struggle
Understanding workplace burnout. I know I’ve reached the point when my mind feels like a chewed-up circuit—like how a rabbit chews through a wire, and it sparks here and there. Then comes the irritation. Today, I was sitting at work trying to talk to people on the phone, and every single thing was making me either frustrated or irritated. Why are you talking so loud? Why are you whispering? What’s taking you so long to talk? Why are you speaking so fast? Why are you mumbling in my ear? Then came the paranoia: Why is everyone looking at me? What are they looking at? Did they just see what I…
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Coping with Detachment: Finding Meaning in Life
Today’s topic I will be covering Detachment and how I cope. Do you ever feel like life isn’t real? Like you wake up each day, but everything seems like an illusion? It’s a strange sensation, isn’t it? You go through the motions, but it feels like you’re in a dream, almost unable to believe that what you’re experiencing is genuine. Right now, as I’m writing this post in the morning, I can’t help but feel that there’s not much difference between this moment and the one that will come later when I wake up to hit “publish.” Time feels fluid, almost non-existent. I know I’ll wake up again, but in…