Work is a key theme in all of my writing and teaching in mental health. I don’t believe a person can overcome the challenges of mental illness without work. Hell, I don’t think a person can be complete without work. Freud equated work and love as the foundations of our humanness. I’ll go so far as to say a life cannot be meaningful without work.
It truly is dehumanizing. I wish you well in this. I have found that it is satisfying to do volunteer work as well -- and doing housework in my home, is also truly work, as well, for me. I hate doing it, it does mandate focus, so I know it definitely qualifies as work.
It truly is dehumanizing. I wish you well in this. I have found that it is satisfying to do volunteer work as well -- and doing housework in my home, is also truly work, as well, for me. I hate doing it, it does mandate focus, so I know it definitely qualifies as work.
I had no idea it worked this way. Scary. Very "Brave New World," or "1984."