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curl-6 15 hours ago
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SvennoJ said:
curl-6 said:
Hope you feel better soon man. 

What coping strategies work for you? Going for a run/walk, gaming, or meditation have helped me.

Thanks as well. I run every other day for 20K or more, couple hours. However construction everywhere has messed with my routes and the noise and visual mess is very stressing. It's not working as it used to and it's a bad time to switch up routes in the middle of a burnout. The other days I lift weights, push ups etc while counting reps. Synthriders is my go to game to get my mind calmed down. Gaming is a double edged sword, sometimes it relaxes me, sometimes it makes me more stressed. I guess it's an ASD thing not to feel any satisfaction beating hard bosses, at least for me. Hence I avoid Souls games nowadays. Love the world building, yet the challenges are all negative experiences, doesn't matter I can do them or not.

I want to get into FS2024 on PSVR2, played the beta a couple times (full release is out for PSVR2), but I don't have the mental energy now to figure out the controls. I can fly these planes no problem, but in VR all the controls are messed up and you can't simply google anything with the headset on. I've only been playing Synthriders past week, can't even get myself to start up Puzzling Places, which is also a good stim.

I'm gonna continue my workout now, then eat, although it's past 10pm already. Completely lost track of time as well, but at least it's quiet and dark now. Hopefully some sun tomorrow, another stress factor, the weather site is always wrong nowadays or vague, sun/cloud/rain all day. Uncertainty is the last thing I need right now. Anyway should be 14c tomorrow, I can run through rain. Rain dampens the noise outside, not all bad.

Yeah I avoid hard games as I'm already stressed out enough and play games to relax; for me also difficulty is a mostly negative experience.

For me, it's about finding those positive triggers and using those to balance out the bad ones; the things that fill your cup as opposed to emptying it. Medication helps; I'm actually quite interested in seeing if ADHD medication can help with me always being so disorganised and forgetful and unmotivated.