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This article really hit home for me as well. But this sentence leaves me in possibly more distress than before reading the article. > The Cornell study found t
by Carrok 2y ago
This article really hit home for me as well. But this sentence leaves me in possibly more distress than before reading the article.
> The Cornell study found that after a month of reduced stress, these effects disappeared.
I do not believe I will ever be able to experience “a month of reduced stress” until the day I die. But maybe that’s just the burnout talking.
- olyjohn 2y agoI am burnt out from work currently and am in the recovery process now. I told my work I was taking a leave of absence, and used my short term disability insurance to be able to afford the time off. If your company or state offers it, please take it. I am protected by FMLA laws so they can't lay me off while I'm gone. My therapist recommends that I stay out of work up to 3 months. I'm on week 2 and it's already taken a huge weight off of me.
- Carrok 2y agoI’m in my first month of my new job so it’s not really an option. Appreciate it though.
- carlosjobim 2y ago> I do not believe I will ever be able to experience “a month of reduced stress” until the day I die. Read your sentence again, so you can see how ridiculous it is. What do you have to do that is so incredibly important that you have to throw away your entire life for it?
- Carrok 2y agoProvide for my family.
- carlosjobim 2y agoThere are billions of people who provide for their families without being stressed out until the day they die. You should ask one of them how they do it. Or you are using your family as an excuse for your self destructive patterns.
- Carrok 2y agoPlease tell me how as an average American I can take a month off work. You blaming me for the capitalist hellscape I happen to have been born into is hilariously absurd. I have some very not nice things I’d like to say to you, but I’ll just leave it at that.
- carlosjobim 2y agoWould you actually listen if I tried to help you? Or do you prefer being insulted that somebody does not admire your plight?
- Carrok 2y agoIf you have a real suggestion on how I can not work for an entire month, I’m all ears. But I think you prefer to just think you’re smarter than everyone, but have no actual idea of how the world works.
- carlosjobim 2y agoNo, I don't think so. I have no idea how your life is, because you haven't told me. But taking one month away from work is not something impossible, it is something common for people to do. Also for people who earn less than you and for people who are less intelligent than you. You could ask your boss for a month off as a first step, if that's what you want.
- BlueTemplar 2y agoWell, you better watch out, because with enough stress you can get burnout. At which point I guess at least you will not be able to do whatever stressed you any more. But then also there's no (complete) coming back from burnout, even after years of reduced stress : https://web.archive.org/web/20230607211423/https://www.economist.com/1843/2016/06/29/is-there-more-to-burnout-than-working-too-hard https://web.archive.org/web/20230607211423/https://www.econo... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12234937 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12234937