George 
Mental Health Image from pixabay.com,
Happy Easter – If that is your thing!
Good Morning All,
Today is April 17, 2022, and it’s Easter across some of the worlds. While it’s not my thing per se, I would normally use the day to catch up with family, and have some good food! But today, it’s a home day on the couch. I am not feeling all too well, headache, sore throat, and body aches.
COVID – The world today sucks!
I have tested at least 5 times over the last two weeks, and every time I test negative. I sware I have “Mono” but the doctors can’t figure out what I have. I am exhausted, sore throat, and whatnot! I am so sick of being sick, I have been out of work for like a week and a half. Well at least out of the office that is, as I feel up to it, I will work as I can. But with this illness, I am not fully mentally there, I can do the basics as needed I can get some work down. But for the management reporting and daily to-do, I struggle with currently. Normally because of the learning disability I have, it takes me longer to complete my reports and project documentation anyway. But now as I am sick it’s taking me much, much longer as I have to write the report, walk away come back figure out where I left off, write more, and repeat. Now my head is in a fog, the breaks are longer, and getting back on track is longer as well. I suppose that I could just let everything wait, but then I get the anxiety.
Mental Health, working, and things to do.
I have the type of personality, that hates to be idle. I always want to be doing something. Working, Learning, Blogging, or Analog Activities, such as Hiking, or Jeeping! I am not much of a TV person, but I have to catch up on the last season of Doctor Who and This season of Picard. I just haven’t had the ambition to at all. Currently feeling as bad as I do, I don’t have the energy to start anything either. As I get very tired very fast. The Flipside is the anxiety is growing, the idler I am, the more I feel that I am wasting time that could be used for something constructive! It’s not a great feeling!!
Blog Goals and Mental Health.
One of the goals of my blog with Cyberhound is to normalize something no one wants to talk about. Is Mental Health. I personally feel we all struggle with mental health issues at one point or another, from crippling anxiety to depression where you don’t want to get out of bed. I have experienced it as well, as a leading team over the years, I have dealt with it professionally and personally. Like most, I will push through anything and drag myself into the office and work to get me out of most funks. On the inside, I will be dying but on the outside, I smile, and I try to be as pleasant as possible, all while my patients are wearing very thin. I will struggle but hide everything I am feeling. Afterward, I will go to a conference room and mediated, if I have to.
One of my favorite quotes or sayings currently is from one of the C-levels executives at my current employer. Steve will say that our group is like a Duck! On the Surface seeming, calm, cool, and collective! But underneath the surface paddling furiously to stay afloat. I probability miss quoted this but it perfectly describes what a majority of us feel like most of the time. I feel like this most days and even more when I’m sick. The rest of you who don’t feel like a duck, I am convinced that you are lying to the rest of us!! (Kidding), Well seriously how do you do it? I really want to know. I haven’t found a way yet!
Hydrate You Bastard – Robin Williams
STOP – I AM NOT MAKING A POLITICAL STATEMENT!
This quote stuck out in my head today, I am on what is my 300 Gatorade today. At this point, I feel like I need stock options in Gatoraid. For the last week or so I have been on the Gatoraid because I feel very dehydrated, and run down!
Anyway Might be Time to take the Hounds out to the Park for a walk!!!
Take Care, Be Well and Stay Healthy!
