Mental & Emotional Health

I get worn out pretty easily … emotionally and mentally that is. I have physical stamina, but my emotional & mental stamina is lacking. After being out with a big group of people, all I want to do is go home, sit and vegetate. I don’t know why this happens, but I think it has something to do with the fact that I am a highly sensitive person. I am very social; I love hanging out with my friends. I love to go out with my friends, have a few beers, dance, be loud & obnoxious and then I love to go home and be alone. However, according to this highly sensitive persons self-diagnosis test, I am a HSP.

I have to have an emotional recharge once I’ve spent my marbles. Speaking of spending my marbles, I did a search to see if I had written about my marble philosophy and I can’t find a post on it. I could have sworn that I had, but apparently I haven’t. My marble philosophy is thanks to Paula Kamen’s wonderfully marvelous migraine book
All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, And Only Slightly Enlightening Headache.

Kamen writes that she gives herself so many marbles each day (let’s say 20) and she can spend them however she wants. Once she has spent her marbles, however, she’s putting herself at risk for getting a migraine. I have 20 marbles a day, and I can choose to save them up for my weekends (only spending 15 marbles a day and then having lots of extra at the end of the week) or I can overspend and then have to recharge multiple times during the week. I’ve thought about actually writing down my marble values for what I do in life, but haven’t taken the time to do so quite yet. Anyway, if I take it easy all week, I can “overspend” what I’ve saved on Saturday. Lately, however, I’ve been spending my 20 marbles every day and then trying to overspend on the weekend. I then end up spending Sunday with the strongest desire ever to simply recharge.

I tried to do a little research on emotional recharging, but I can’t find much information on it. I know I’m not the only person out there who needs to seek alone-time in order to “prepare” for social-time, but I don’t know if there’s a technical term for it and I’m just making up this “emotional recharge” phrase that Google won’t find for me. What do you call your time when you put yourself back together? What do you like to do when you recharge? (I read, write, surf the internet, watch TV and sometimes listen to music.) Help me out here, readers! : )

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