Is it fear or boredom?

Is it depression or uncertainty?

Are you burnt out or shutting down to recharge?

Why don’t we think about our minds the way we do our bodies? If you have a cold with the accompanying sneezes, coughs, and headache, you don’t try to outthink it. If you slam your knee into the side of a cabinet, you don’t assume you can “snap out of” the pain.

But when your mind is tired? When you start to spiral? When the bottom seems closer to the top? You refuse to rest. You don’t stop and think it’s something that will pass with time. You convince yourself that you’re bad, dumb, slow, untalented.

You should stop doing that.

Bodies don’t necessarily become stronger when they heal from injury. But they do learn new information. So do minds. You won’t come out on the other side of this experience with nothing. But your period of learning must be preceded by a period of rest.

Just shut down for a while. Recharge. Keep yourself from overheating. The machine of your mind can’t run at the same pace forever. If it does, some of the parts will fail.