{"id":23629,"date":"2024-09-30T08:33:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T07:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=23629"},"modified":"2024-09-30T08:36:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T07:36:44","slug":"health-wellbeing-survival-mode-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=23629","title":{"rendered":"HEALTH &amp; WELLBEiNG: Survival Mode, Again\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Saturday last I did a short shift. I came home with energy to spare. <em>Very <\/em>unusual lately. I even started working towards the renewal of the west-facing wall in shed #1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, on Sunday, I slipped back into utter exhaustion mode. I\u2019d intended to work in earnest on replacing the side of the shed. But\u2026 not a chance!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was in bed, sleeping on and off, all day. I tried a short spell downstairs. Managed about 45 minutes. Then back to bed. I\u2019m so tired that sleeping a lot on and off during the day <em>isn\u2019t <\/em>adversely affecting my ability to sleep at night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The way I see it, I\u2019m back in basic survival mode. Fortunately the depression element has lifted somewhat. So whilst I\u2019m past tired, and not happy to be unwell, at least I\u2019m not suicidally depressed at the moment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I watched a bit of snooker yesterday, including the live final between Mark Shelby and John Higgins. I do find snooker a therapeutic thing to watch. Calming. And esp\u2019 so when I\u2019m too tired even to read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s Monday now. I had two shifts booked. But I\u2019ve cancelled the second\/longer\/later one. Frankly it\u2019ll be a miracle, feeling as I do, if I can do the afternoon one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But economic needs dictate that I work as much as I can manage\u2026 so, we shall see what we shall see. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday last I did a short shift. I came home with energy to spare. Very unusual lately. I even started working towards the renewal of the west-facing wall in shed #1 Then, on Sunday, I slipped back into utter exhaustion mode. I\u2019d intended to work in earnest on replacing the side of the shed. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=23629\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HEALTH &amp; WELLBEiNG: Survival Mode, Again\u2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-697","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23629"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23630,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23629\/revisions\/23630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}