Tackling some of the simpler things is helping

The bottom line is that I’m intelligent and practical because I am an engineer like my father, brother and other family members. But at the same time, since I had my massive mental breakdown my ability to cope every day has been substantially reduced. It’s quite easy for me to feel overwhelmed by everyday events and tasks that can then potentially lead to a kind of cascade failure that can cripple me. By that I just retreat into myself and shut down and then nothing gets done.

This is were the engineer in me kicks in. Recently I have started tackling many of the smaller things in day to day life. That can be anything from just picking something up off the floor and putting it where it should be to washing the pots to taking the time to look out of the window at the sunshine.

Yes, the bigger things still need doing and these “bigger things” can trigger feelings of being overwhelmed and useless. But that can be off set by fixing the little things and that means ending the day feeling a little less that useless