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How do you deal with bad cyclic burnout? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For some odd reason I burnout very frequently, or more like I get so brain dead that I literally cannot even come up with an Idea of what to do, let alone act on it. It feels like when I even try to start I get so exhausted that I have to lay down.

It always happens after I'm the most productive, but my down time feels so much longer than the time I get to create. I'd say I have at least 4 days to a week of productivity, and about 2 - 3 weeks of burnout. It's nuts.

The cycle repeats, though it can vary wildly in how long each part is.

I'm starting to get hella annoyed since I haven't drawn a thing in over a year and I was finally getting back into the groove at least doodling daily, just to be derailed hard.

I was thinking that I just lack creativity, but it became this catch-22 of "I have to actually draw with purpose and make things that I enjoy" and "I am so fucking tired that even opening a sketchbook or cleaning makes me want to take a nap / drop into a dead sleep".

What are your thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's really bad ratios but I can only give you the generic advice, I doubt it's enough but maybe it'll help a bit.

Get good long sleep, cool room, blacked out room. People say 8 hrs but try 9-10. Dim lights in a warm color range 1-2 hrs before bed.

Try to eliminate caffeine. If it can't, no caffeine after noon.

Eat chicken liver. Lots of vitamins.

You can try creatine if you want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's hard to stray away from caffeine later on since my job is in the morning and I have to stay alert until at least dusk since my S.O. doesn't have a license and she works afternoons and nights.

Also first I heard of the chicken liver and creatine stuff, what's the supposed effects of those?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Well I think I found the problem. Caffeine late in the day is interfering with your sleep, which means you then need caffeine to stay awake, which then interferes with your sleep, etc. You really need to break the pattern. You shouldn't need it to be functional.

Liver is nature's multivitamin. Lots of everything but exceptionally B vitamins.

Creatine you see mainly in working out so you don't get tired (it's a molecule important in the energy system), but there are ideas that is good for everyone.