To work or not to work: or what is "work" anyway?

[Shaz51]

Your Amazing @GothMum...I used to be like you....then I got overstretched now Apple keeps me calm plus....more like @Briar @Mazarita @Shaz51 @Chris

Oh my @PeppiPatty

[Achillies]

hi,it seems to me your doing a lot for others which is absolutely fine(im a full time carer for my partner who has an ABI) but its ok to also be a little "selfish" once in a while hey! if you dont love yourself some then its hard to properly love anyone else! im sure your fully aware of this,i just thought id give my own humble opinion;)

[Shaz51]

I agree @Achillies, thank you for you message , sometimes we need a reminder or else we do forget ourselfies

How are you tonight @Achillies, and hello to @Appleblossom, @GothMum

[PeppiPatty]

Hi @Achillies

how are you tonight ? My name is PeppyPatti......If you were writing to me....yes.....my life is about finding time for myself when just about to overstretch myself. 

But I wouldnt want it any other way. 

I keep on thinking.....what if..........What if I waited to meet someone who did'nt suffer times of mental ill health.

What if I waited until I was properly cleansed from stress from my son and I finished studying a nursing degree I pulled out of. 

What if??

What if I didn't eat all my icecreams in the freezer today and I left one for tonight and I could be eating it right now?

Yum. Icecream.

[Appleblossom]

Thanks @Achillies

If you were talking to me.

I have tried to keep an activity for me going after I left work and became a mum 30 years ago.  Bit by bit  ... thats how my piano and singing developed and I earned more money that way than from any fancy degree.

Some of my questioning and approach in this thread is about that .. but I am open .. to discussing any aspect.

I also know career types who get a lot of pleasure out of their work.  They dont do it just for the money. Their sense of self esteem, and pleasure and satisfaction comes from being fully engaged in it .. not just being a resentful wage slave. 

I also wanted to move the discussion from simply a gender divide ... or a sick patient and working doctor divide.

I also have a weird sense that psychosis is a lot of work .... effort expended etc.