{"id":6661,"date":"2023-10-04T04:20:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T04:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reasonstolivefor.com\/?p=6661"},"modified":"2023-10-04T04:20:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T04:20:56","slug":"navigating-mental-health-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reasonstolivefor.com\/navigating-mental-health-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Navigating Mental Health Challenges While Unemployed: My Depression Journal \u2013 Day 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Navigating mental health challenges while being out of work doesn’t make the struggles any easier. Today, I went to return my company laptop to my former employer. I had built up an elaborate scenario in my mind, which caused me a lot of anxiety. I couldn’t sleep all night because of it. I played out various scenarios: my ex-colleagues approaching me to express sympathy, people inquiring about my future plans, and offers of assistance. Lastly, I imagined a walk of shame as I left the venue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, none of the above actually happened. It was a quick in-and-out process, barely taking 5 minutes. Surprisingly, nobody paid any attention, simply because I failed to realize that we’re all preoccupied with our own concerns and challenges. While my visit to the office felt like a significant event for me, for everyone else, it was just another ordinary day.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Rest of my day was as per usual. Did a little workout at home, sleeping tonight in workout clothes so I don’t have any excuses in the morning. I am also focusing on adding a Banana to my daily diet in an attempt to have some fruit intake. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mental Health Challenges remain to be a major concern for me but I can admit each day is not as bad. Still a long way to go, the important reminder is I have done it before and I can do it again! While writing this post, I put on some background music which helps me think clearly and write better: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v3HJYkur4HY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can see the last post here: https:\/\/reasonstolivefor.com\/seeking-clarity-my-depression-journal-day-6-7\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Navigating Mental Health Challenges while being out of work <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[399],"tags":[49,407,275],"views":11,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reasonstolivefor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reasonstolivefor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reasonstolivefor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reasonstolivefor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reasonstolivefor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reasonstolivefor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6663,"href":"https:\/\/reasonstolivefor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661\/revisions\/6663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reasonstolivefor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reasonstolivefor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reasonstolivefor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}