I have so much free time but thats bcz of negative symptoms.
yeah my whole day is mostly free time but i try to have activities, only 6 hours a day with nothing planned to do whatever like listen to radio or watch tv or come here.
isolation won. I used to want to be active. I used to want to work and have a car…eventually I lost the war…
probably because physical activity has so much to do with success and wellbeing in life.
Well it can’t be any worse than having the living **** bullied out of me at a workplace.
The less you do the less you do. The more you do the more you do.
I think its probably about feeling accomplished if thats a value that you have.
How is free time defined in the study?
I am too busy. I have deliberately tried to cut out some things to make some time to do things I enjoy like computer games. My days are exercise and volunteering later in the weeks and it keeps me busy. I’m trying to do more hobby time and still keep busy but I’m finding my time to be pretty occupied. Not a bad thing but having some wind down time is good!
I skimmed throu it.
For whoever dosent want to read it. Here is the main idea.
To much free time (and people in the study while they thought of free time they they thought of solo or unproductive activities) will give you (on avarage) a 0.4 drop in wellbeing on a 7 point scale.
This will happen after 5 hours, hovewer it doesnt apply to solo productive activities or leisure social time, apparently this will not decrease your wellbeing and it might increase it.
Personal opinion
Thing is this forum can be labeled as leisure social activity.
One thing that might be missing in people with mentall illness might not be the social activity in the case of people here who socialize (this is a social activity too, better then none i guess) but the sense of purpose and connection to the outside world.
Why? Because it might cause a feeling of being somebody who dosent fit in, its different/dosent belong.
Of course the problem is complex but one of the reasons might be that people havent learned to accept theyre situation( trust me its hard to accept that this world was made by normal people for normal people and its runned by normal people) or that they compare with the rest of the world and aspire to become a part of it(totally normal)
We Aspire to have that sense of belonging but were ill and our mind is different this creates a cognitive dissonance between what is (symtoms) and what it should /desire to be (belonging, acceptance, being part of it)
Of course theres much more to it, and i could talk about it
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