#normal levels/speed

[terresdebrume]

Walked 2 times 30mn today, without the brace. Did not do squats, but I also experienced much fewer tremors in the thigh, so we'll give it a try again the day after tomorrow (with the brace on and a reduced walk time).

In the meantime, we'll see if I can maintain 2x30mn for a while, and if it goes well I'll switch to 40+20mn of walking to keep working towards the goal of walking at least 1h at a time so that it's finally financially viable to go to the gym and use the machinery there x)

It's still frustrating that I can't just do everything at once/be better but I'm really trying to be careful about this because slow and steady protects you from reinjury.

[beatcroc]

hey mecha, do you think you could beat metal sonic in a 1v1

[arolesbianism]

I caved and made them real. Obverse me losing more and more motivation to draw as I made each of these back to back lol

[echo-s-land]

Getting told that it's not possible for you to be on the spectrum or if you are you adapted too well so whatever, it doesn't bother you

[musubiki]

Would Mochi be the first witch that Clarinette would have run into? I’m guessing witches avoid the m34th as much as possible. If true it hilarious that Clarinette’s first interaction with the deadly highly skilled weapons of mass destruction that her JOB is LITERALLY to suppress by all means necessary is actually just some girl who nervously twirls her finger in her hair when her middle school crush is talked about

oooooh interesting point!!! i actually never thought of that!!

i dont think it would be the first witch shes ever seen!! very true that witches try and avoid the m34th, but clarinette has been there longer than lime so i imagine shes had quite a few "go investigate/supress/hunt this misbehaving witch" missions before!!

it WOULD be her first time meeting the cat witch or anyone from the coven (formal name for the top 5). and i guarantee that just as in witch society, there are MASSES of rumors swirling around the infamous cat witch. probably had this mind image of someone super scary, serious, threatening, sadistic, evil, unstoppable, imposing, intimidating, etc. someone you dont fuck with or talk to under any circumstances unless absolutely necessary.

and then just as you said shes actually this cute little ball of sweetness who radiates warmth. BUT also love the idea that clarinette meets the cat witch, lets her guard down and doesnt take mochi seriously because "How could the cat witch be someone like this? Are you kidding me?"

and then the moment they get into an actual fight, mochi TURNS INTO that person (above) that clarinette thought she might be. except its a little more scary because shes all those things but still maintains that sweet exterior. i imagine its the kind of fight where clarinette struggles and gives her absolute all and mochi barely breaks a sweat with what shes capable of 0_0. clarinette exhausted and beat down on the floor panting, mochi standing over her with not even a scratch, looking at her with that sweet mochi expression and says "Should I get you a medic?" which pisses her off more

[whumpy-wyrms]

i am drawing the coolest silliest thing i’ve ever drawn rn like i’m obsessed with it i’m losing my mind and yes it’s Anton’s fursona

[icewindandboringhorror]

Recent things.. mostly just writing screenshots lol

[minotaurfemme]

i will say, the fact that im twinkifying with no change to really anything i do other than my hrt method, i kinda get the lanky tgirl stereotype now.

[bigmeandragonlady]

im not generally one to complain about the way ppl build their frames or whatever but there is this one Titania build that basically turns the game into a walking simulator for the rest of the party and i can't say im a fan

[transgenderfivepebbles]

MET THE RED MIST I THINK I HAUVE COVID

[abugidaithink]

i just realised the TimeWarp trigger doesn't persist after death even though it really should

does anyone know a good way to get around this?

[positivelyapunovexponent-good]

it would be really cool if I could have a day this month where I wasn’t so chronically afraid it felt like my intestines were twisted into a möbius strip. Because ya’know- I really like my digestive tract being an orientable manifold. If that’s all the same to the universe.

[housewifebuck]

i am once again begging for your eddie finds out about the crane fic <3

On my life on of these days I’m gonna finish that one. Y’all just wait until I get my shit together I’m gonna be writing so much

[sschmendrick]

Maybe I should go back to seeing my therapist, he was a good person, à l'écoute, but maybe I should explain why I stopped seeing him (on top of work load becoming unbearable).

Same with my psychiatrist though I think it'll be harder to see her because of the summer.

[eldritchflapper]

I wish I had the balance & money to just roller skate every where

[drdemonprince]

The data does not support the assumption that all burned out people can “recover.” And when we fully appreciate what burnout signals in the body, and where it comes from on a social, economic, and psychological level, it should become clear to us that there’s nothing beneficial in returning to an unsustainable status quo. 

The term “burned out” is sometimes used to simply mean “stressed” or “tired,” and many organizations benefit from framing the condition in such light terms. Short-term, casual burnout (like you might get after one particularly stressful work deadline, or following final exams) has a positive prognosis: within three months of enjoying a reduced workload and increased time for rest and leisure, 80% of mildly burned-out workers are able to make a full return to their jobs. 

But there’s a lot of unanswered questions lurking behind this happy statistic. For instance, how many workers in this economy actually have the ability to take three months off work to focus on burnout recovery? What happens if a mildly burnt-out person does not get that rest, and has to keep toiling away as more deadlines pile up? And what is the point of returning to work if the job is going to remain as grueling and uncontrollable as it was when it first burned the worker out? 

Burnout that is not treated swiftly can become far more severe. Clinical psychologist and burnout expert Arno van Dam writes that when left unattended (or forcibly pushed through), mild burnout can metastasize into clinical burnout, which the International Classification of Diseases defines as feelings of energy depletion, increased mental distance, and a reduced sense of personal agency. Clinically burned-out people are not only tired, they also feel detached from other people and no longer in control of their lives, in other words.

Unfortunately, clinical burnout has quite a dismal trajectory. Multiple studies by van Dam and others have found that clinical burnout sufferers may require a year or more of rest following treatment before they can feel better, and that some of burnout’s lingering effects don’t go away easily, if at all. 

In one study conducted by Anita Eskildsen, for example, burnout sufferers continued to show memory and processing speed declines one year after burnout. Their cognitive processing skills improved slightly since seeking treatment, but the experience of having been burnt out had still left them operating significantly below their non-burned-out peers or their prior self, with no signs of bouncing back. 

It took two years for subjects in one of van Dam’s studies to return to “normal” levels of involvement and competence at work. following an incident of clinical burnout. However, even after a multi-year recovery period they still performed worse than the non-burned-out control group on a cognitive task designed to test their planning and preparation abilities. Though they no longer qualified as clinically burned out, former burnout sufferers still reported greater exhaustion, fatigue, depression, and distress than controls.

In his review of the scientific literature, van Dam reports that anywhere from 25% to 50% of clinical burnout sufferers do not make a full recovery even four years after their illness. Studies generally find that burnout sufferers make most of their mental and physical health gains in the first year after treatment, but continue to underperform on neuropsychological tests for many years afterward, compared to control subjects who were never burned out. 

People who have experienced burnout report worse memories, slower reaction times, less attentiveness, lower motivation, greater exhaustion, reduced work capability, and more negative health symptoms, long after their period of overwork has stopped. It’s as if burnout sufferers have fallen off their previous life trajectory, and cannot ever climb fully back up. 

And that’s just among the people who receive some kind of treatment for their burnout and have the opportunity to rest. I found one study that followed burned-out teachers for seven years and reported over 14% of them remained highly burnt-out the entire time. These teachers continued feeling depersonalized, emotionally drained, ineffective, dizzy, sick to their stomachs, and desperate to leave their jobs for the better part of a decade. But they kept working in spite of it (or more likely, from a lack of other options), lowering their odds of ever healing all the while. 

Van Dam observes that clinical burnout patients tend to suffer from an excess of perseverance, rather than the opposite: “Patients with clinical burnout…report that they ignored stress symptoms for several years,” he writes. “Living a stressful life was a normal condition for them. Some were not even aware of the stressfulness of their lives, until they collapsed.”

Instead of seeking help for workplace problems or reducing their workload, as most people do, clinical burnout sufferers typically push themselves through unpleasant circumstances and avoid asking for help. They’re also less likely to give up when placed under frustrating circumstances, instead throttling the gas in hopes that their problems can be fixed with extra effort. They become hyperactive, unable to rest or enjoy holidays, their bodies wired to treat work as the solution to every problem. It is only after living at this unrelenting pace for years that they tumble into severe burnout. 

Among both masked Autistics and overworked employees, the people most likely to reach catastrophic, body-breaking levels of burnout are the people most primed to ignore their own physical boundaries for as long as possible. Clinical burnout sufferers work far past the point that virtually anyone else would ask for help, take a break, or stop caring about their work.

And when viewed from this perspective, we can see burnout as the saving grace of the compulsive workaholic — and the path to liberation for the masked disabled person who has nearly killed themselves trying to pass as a diligent worker bee. 

I wrote about the latest data on burnout "recovery," and the similarities and differences between Autistic burnout and conventional clinical burnout. The full piece is free to read or have narrated to you in the Substack app at drdevonprice.substack.com