04-13-2019, 10:34 PM
(04-13-2019, 10:27 PM)ZW909 Wrote: This may not work for everyone, but a good default for me- is to just work more. When I'm unemployed or working part-time, I tend to do worse than when I'm working full-time. I guess you could say- on a red ray level at least - its a "better" coping mechanism than just sitting at home browsing online. Right now I'm part time, and its killing me. Not only do I need (decent paying) full-time work. But I want it. Because I struggle with more than one type of addiction. And being alone at home, doing nothing, doesn't help much.
And its not like working more is "all fun". My background is in "general labor". Didn't go to college. So work can be tiring and painful- but the good kind of tiring and painful. Rather than that numb feeling of "nothingness".
thank u for sharing ur perspective. thats very interesting because i am the opposite! but i think that if ur struggling with multiple "addictions" but ur masking them over with working more i suppose thats a pretty good suboptimal decision but i would recommend taking this extra time u currently have to understand and get rid of those addictions so u dont have such a strong feeling of needing to work more! imagine if u worked thru these addictions and then when u have lots of free time u can do lots of cool stuff!!