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 Task 17: Brag about yourself a little bit. Write about something you're good at. What makes you think you're good at it and what have you done to excel?I'm good at design. Honestly I love talking about what I do, so I could talk about this all day. I've gone through school to study graphic design and then web design and new media (user experience, motion graphics, etc.). I've been doing design for the past 10-11 years so I've had quite a bit of experience in working with clients, following what I wanted to design and learning all of the design trends and techniques. Aside from just doing graphic design, I've been working with user experience which I love and is one of the best things I'm glad I've ever learned. Every day I keep learning more about design, various website systems and patterns, and how people actually want to use the things I'm making. Being able to constantly learn is how I continue to excel. Task 19: What are some things you struggle with day-to-day right now? Not things you've struggled with in the past, but things that are an active daily problem. What are you doing to resolve those specific problems?Currently my biggest issue is always being tired. I have an appointment in February to do a sleep study to see why I may be tired all the time. Lately I have also had a hard time focusing. I've been working on this by taking regular breaks from work when I can't focus to bring my mind to a different topic and then I can better focus on what I need to be accomplishing. Task 20: Create a list of at least 5 potential tasks for next month's "MHWA Mental Health Challenge". Is there a person in your life that you can turn to for help with your mental health problems? How do they help? Find an article online that is relevant to your own mental health problems and share it with the group. Do you have a hobby that helps your mental health? What is a decoration in your house that brings you joy? Take any Buzzfeed quiz and share your result. Why did you choose this quiz? Task 21: Are there certain times of the day where your anxiety, stress, or mental health problems are worse on average? What time of day and what do you think causes the increased severity?They can get worse if something comes up unexpectedly at work, which is usually early afternoon if it happens. One of the more regular times is when I'm going to bed. When my brain kicks into overdrive while just laying in bed, it can wander into topics that make it worse. This is why I always listen to something to fall asleep or make sure that I'm extremely tired when I go to bed, so that I can try to keep those thoughts from invading. Task 22: Have you ever regretted opening up to someone about your struggles with mental illness? Who was it and what made you regret being so candid?I haven't regretted opening up to anyone about it yet. I am of the opinion that being open is what you should be doing and that if you can't be, then it's not a relationship that I want to cultivate. To flip this around, one of the best things about discussing my mental illness was one of my friends and I becoming even closer. We both have anxiety and regularly openly discuss it. If we have something that's making the anxiety worse, we text each other and discuss, we talk about ways we reduce anxiety. |
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That totally makes sense to me that avoiding comes down to how comfortable you are with something and how confident you are that you can complete it. I think that's what I struggle with a lot, too. If I don't feel like I can do it, I'm much more likely to avoid it.
Yet there are some things I can handle with no issues whatsoever. 
I hope that you find out why you've been so tired. Chronic fatigue is awful. I like the tasks that you came up with. The Buzzfeed quiz one is an interesting idea.
