Mental Health Days

For the vast majority of us, we all live a hectic life. Between family, kids, work, bills, social life plus a lot of us take Steemit fairly seriously so there's that additional stress. Its no surprise then when every so often you have a mental break down and just need a Mental Health day.

For me that day was today. Sadly I didn't get to zone out for the day, but as I'm away for work I am planning on vegging and doing nothing tonight. I got dirty KFC for dinner, which I have eaten already (its only 5pm), once I finish this post, I'm going to sit back and relax.

So what got me to this?

If you read my content regularly, you'll know yesterday I was complaining about how people are just so rude. So that got me worked up yesterday, then today I'm out on the road trying to visit new mine sites. Not a single site anymore has an accessible reception, so they have blocked all access to any kind of sales person. So I'm stuck out here, away from my family and home, with people who wont talk to me, and now I can't even leave a card. It is an absolutely soul destroying process.

And then I get an email from my boss chastising me for not doing a job. The problem is I never knew I had to do the job, and even if I didn't know, the information that I need is never given to me. So I'm on the phone to my boss and he asks how the trip is going and I just lay it out for him. He seems fairly shocked. By that stage I was nearly on the point of breaking down, it was all building up. The stress levels were sky high. Obviously there were other factors in the background, such as the company owner calling me incompetent and having the constant fear of getting sacked etc.

So my boss suggests giving the brochures to the security guards to pass on, fair enough that seems plausible. The next 4 sites the security guards take them. But on the 5th site I start chatting to one of them, a really nice young Maori guy. This guy tells me that they get sales guys coming up all the time, and they are instructed to accept the material to keep people happy. But he asked, why would he trek into an admin building to find someone for me. Also, the security is only for visitors, the managers never visit the security hut, so he's never going to pass it on.

So after feeling relieved for a few hours, I was shattered again. I'm seriously beginning to think that the Australian Mining Industry is broken and will likely never recover. Unless you were an established player before the crash in 2011, you have no possible means of entry in today's market.

So on to my point about mental health days.

Everyone needs to occasionally take some time out for just themselves and decompress. The biggest thing I've found in the past though, is to minimize stimulants in that process. So try to avoids drink and drugs, even so much as being away from others that you may upset and offend. I broke this rule last night and stupidly said something rude that offended someone that I respect. So that's why tonight I'm going completely solo, no people, no Discord, no stimulants just plain ME time.

Hopefully tomorrow is a better today.

Thanks for listening to my rambles, I appreciate it.