I’ve been threatening for a few years now to write a monster post called “How to be Overwhelmed.” When you have a chronic or mental illness, there are hard stops on your capacity to just power through and get things done—but you’ve still got expenses to manage, chores and care tasks to do every day, people in your life who need care, periodic emergencies, and high physical and mental health needs. You end up with a whole routine for how to be overwhelmed. If you’re lucky, you end up with a good one.
I always knew this post would be enormous, but I finally got it written. Now that it’s finished, I’m realizing I got it done by following my own advice: the day came when writing it was just my next right thing. This is an edited version of a post I made in a “Babies due in August” subreddit when I realized I was searching exhaustedly for someone to tell me what I already knew (but was struggling to apply to pregnancy). I figured it was time to write this down for my own reference and for others’.
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