Same. I can remember some times I should have told myself no. I have pushed myself through a lot of uncomfortable situations and it has helped me in situations I later couldn't have a choice in, to improvise with the tools I had to make it through unforeseeable mortifyingly difficult other things popping up out of nowhere I had no time to think about. I am feeling like I've been pressured a bit too much beyond my physical limits lately, from a well meaning person who has no idea of what happens to an already extra cognitive load, when too much additional illness, and resultant sleep deprivation gets piled on along with not having the shortcut of driving to handle ongoing deadlines and necessities. It is not that person's fault. I am my own spouse, and have to find ways of handling not having another person to answer the door or phone to explain why I just am sometimes indisposed, or simply can't rise at the moment. I'm not dead. Just trying to survive to get things done when, it actually turns out that I can. What's kind of funny is this person is a teacher by profession, which factors in his MO of just assigning with unrealistic deadlines, in the triage of what all really must be done to keep surviving. I need to triage what I can do for the best outcome I can hope for.
Same. I can remember some times I should have told myself no. I have pushed myself through a lot of uncomfortable situations and it has helped me in situations I later couldn't have a choice in, to improvise with the tools I had to make it through unforeseeable mortifyingly difficult other things popping up out of nowhere I had no time to think about. I am feeling like I've been pressured a bit too much beyond my physical limits lately, from a well meaning person who has no idea of what happens to an already extra cognitive load, when too much additional illness, and resultant sleep deprivation gets piled on along with not having the shortcut of driving to handle ongoing deadlines and necessities. It is not that person's fault. I am my own spouse, and have to find ways of handling not having another person to answer the door or phone to explain why I just am sometimes indisposed, or simply can't rise at the moment. I'm not dead. Just trying to survive to get things done when, it actually turns out that I can. What's kind of funny is this person is a teacher by profession, which factors in his MO of just assigning with unrealistic deadlines, in the triage of what all really must be done to keep surviving. I need to triage what I can do for the best outcome I can hope for.