There are some signs that tell/warn you that you are mentally exhausted or drained.
1. Irritation.
You feel irritated rather quickly by minor things. The whole day you feel hopeless and you know you should do the best out of it. But you can‘t and that is frustrating. Instead of worrying take those „time outs“ to work on yourself, to make you feel better.
2. Low Motivation.
You can‘t bring yourself to do anything. But don‘t push yourself. Lay back and get on your right track before you overwork yourself.
3. Anxiety Attacks.
They happen more frequently and more random. The stress is overpowering you. Lay back and tend to your wounds. Find out what you need.
4. Sleeping Troubles.
Just because you are exhausted, doesn‘t meed your mind won‘t race the entire night preventing you from getting an healthy amount of sleep.
5. Upset.
Because of your low energy and your hightened sensitivity, you get upset my minor things rather quickly. It actually brings tears to your eyes. Don’t let yourself suffer.
6. Nausea.
You feel dizzy and nauseous almost all the time. You lack concentration and can’t eat, because everything tastes the same.
7. Crying.
You feel like crying all the time. You are oversensitive and you feel like the whole word is plotting against you. And your body only knows one thing of cleansing: crying.
8. Detachement.
You start to feel „comfortable numb“, meaning you stop feeling at all. You just pass by, nothing has an effect on you anymore.
As soon as you notice those signs, take some time off for self healing. Don’t go numb!
Emotional numbness is where we experience mild to severe feelings of detachment – so it’s hard for us to access normal feelings any more. This includes both negative and positive emotions as you can’t decide to shut just one feeling off. Common causes of emotional numbness include different stresses or traumas … from receiving bad news … to being in an accident … to recovering from the death of someone close … to a relationship breakup … to feeling deeply humiliated or ashamed. So how do you overcome emotional numbness and live with emotional integrity again?
1. The first thing to do is to choose to respect and allow all emotions – no matter what they are. Also, try and grasp the fact that suppressing your emotions will likely lead to heartache and problems later on (as they’ll possibly resurface at inappropriate times.)
2. Try and understand that feelings and actions are two very different, and unrelated, things. That is, you can still feel angry without becoming violent – so don’t assume your feelings will affect your actions, too.
3. Try to figure out the message behind intense emotions. Are you angry because you’ve been hurt, used or abused? Are you sad because deep down you feel that you’ll never find true love – as you can’t believe that anyone will love you for yourself?
4. Take that risk – and find the courage to ask someone for help. If you’re honest with yourself, you’ll know that there are those who genuinely love you like – like a true and caring friend. The important thing is not to try and isolate yourself, and to make the extra effort to prioritise self-care. You need other people to help you work through this.
5. Seek professional help if the symptoms persist. There are excellent counsellors and therapists out there who have the training and skills to help you to get free – so you can live a more fulfilling and normal, healthy life.
6. Be patient within yourself. It’s likely to take time – as you will need to learn to trust, and take some barriers down, so you can be yourself again (and that is often hard to do when you’ve experience hurt and pain).
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