The Most Unrealistic Expectation of Them All [blogs.psychcentral.com]

Alicia Doktor 11/6/1712:00 PM

Yesterday, you ran 5 miles, prepared dinner for several nights, completed a complicated work project and organized your entire office. Or you checked off every task from your very long to-do list. Your focus barely waned and the day almost felt seamless.

Today, you showered, put cream cheese on a bagel, and feel like a zombie (or whatever has less energy than that).

Your brain is bare. In fact, you can barely string together simple sentences. Everything feels like it requires so much effort, effort you don’t have, effort you can’t fake, effort that no amount of cheerleading and affirmations can inspire. Everything feels forced or frustrating or wrong.

[For more on this story by Margarita Tartakovsky, go to https://blogs.psychcentral.com...ctation-of-them-all/]

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