{"id":45127,"date":"2017-07-29T22:44:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T02:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45127"},"modified":"2020-08-19T16:44:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T20:44:26","slug":"a-bad-mental-health-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45127","title":{"rendered":"A bad mental health day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/span>A while ago, the internet was abuzz over a story<\/a> about a woman who took some sick days off and cited that they were to \u201cfocus on my mental health,\u201d which was then personally responded to by the CEO of her company, applauding her for doing such.\u00a0 Bringing the all-important \u201cawareness\u201d to the issue, and then people all over the internet collectively went \u201cawww\u201d over it, because mental health is a legitimate issue in today\u2019s world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Personally, I didn\u2019t buy it.\u00a0 My knee-jerk reaction was that the woman was feeling burned out and didn\u2019t want to go to work, and called in sick, which is a common practice all around the world pretty much.\u00a0 I\u2019m more impressed that she was so honest in the sense that she didn\u2019t make up some phony excuse, phantom sickness, cite a fake death in the family or use food poisoning as reason to take two days off.<\/span><\/p>\n

But mental health?\u00a0 Yeah no, I don\u2019t buy it.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think the mental word trigger should be so quick to be pulled when people are getting burned out by their jobs, or are just really exhausted and don\u2019t want to face their work for a day or two.\u00a0 And if they have the sick time, why not use it?<\/span><\/p>\n

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The reason I sat down to write about this is that on this particular day, I had what these sheep would have constituted as a bad mental health day.\u00a0 I woke up unpleasantly due to a solicitor coming to my door at an AM hour, with my dogs barking up a storm while I\u2019m trying to tell someone to buzz off in the most polite manner as I can.\u00a0 And then in one particular errand I agreed to go on, I got annihilated by traffic going to and from my destination, leading me to be extremely pissed off.\u00a0 And due to the wasted time sitting in traffic, I ended up being denied the visit to the barbecue restaurant I made my condition for going on this little errand.<\/span><\/p>\n

By the time I got home, my mood was shot, and there was no coming back from it.\u00a0 Everything else throughout the day just drew ire and agitation, and I had the shortest fuse with absolutely everything.\u00a0 The world felt overpopulated, and I just wanted to be alone and doing things that only I wanted to do, and it was feeling like such was impossible because I didn\u2019t feel like anyone in the world actually thought about or had any consideration for me, except for me.\u00a0 I mean, it really shouldn\u2019t be any different from that, but god damn was I beginning to feel like I was the most inconsequential entity on the planet whose wants were all expendable compared to others.<\/span><\/p>\n

But basically, this is what I would have called a bad mental health day.\u00a0 Had it been a work day, would I have taken it off?\u00a0 Fuck no.\u00a0 Going to work is actually something good for my bad mental health days, because I can channel all my concentration on work, and take my mind off of the things that are bogging down my mental health.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the things that help?\u00a0 Sitting down and watching some baseball.\u00a0 Trying to figure out how to fix things.\u00a0 Little tiny errands, and shit like watching movies helped.<\/span><\/p>\n

The woman who took off work citing those mental health days?\u00a0 Sure, I know her CEO and the internet applauded it and all, but there\u2019s no convincing me that her days off were spent in pajamas watching Netflix and eating garbage, which seems like a far cry from focusing on anything other than mindless shit, which seems kind of counterproductive to anything remotely mental.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bottom line is that this is a shit post, because my mind is full of shit today, which has been lousy, but after a few hours of doing some mindless shit to decompress and take my mind off of how much I hated the world today, the thought to write about writing about shitty days kind of came to fruition and here we stand.<\/span><\/p>\n

As for my focusing on my mental health, the rest of the evening will likely be spent burning through the remaining stamina I have in Fire Emblem Heroes<\/em>, and then going to bed and reading a book until I fall asleep, where I genuinely hope tomorrow is a better day, and I can salvage at least one good day of the weekend that I had looked so forward to.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A while ago, the internet was abuzz over a story about a woman who took some sick days off and cited that they were to \u201cfocus on my mental health,\u201d which was then personally responded to by the CEO of her company, applauding her for doing such.\u00a0 Bringing the all-important \u201cawareness\u201d to the issue, and … Continue reading A bad mental health day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37,52,105,146],"class_list":["post-45127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-job","tag-owned","tag-rage","tag-triggered"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47210,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45127\/revisions\/47210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}