What should I do with all my free time?

Health and Recovery
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  • Take an art class
  • Take a yoga class
  • Join clubhouse
  • Stay in day treatment longer
  • Become a peer coach (6 hours per week)
  • Become a tutor (1 day per week)
  • Volunteer at the hospital
  • Exercise more
  • Draw more
  • Practice driving
  • Go out to more places like different beaches
  • Other ideas

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My preference would be to work as much as possible as a tutor, but right now all I do is go to day treatment and 1-4 support groups per week and my body feels tired. I also hike weekly and will start attending cancer and grief support groups. I already finished most of the paperwork to be a peer coach for 1 client. But I feel that’s not enough to live a respectable and independent life. If I work more, it might become exhausting. I’d like to work on accomplishing other life goals like driving and drawing better, being a better daughter, making more friends, etc. It’d be nice to work more to save for a car or a future vacation, but I’m always out of fuel. My emotions have come back and life often looks beautiful. It’d be nice to accomplish something like art or better friendships or healthier body. Sitting at home reading or wasting away my life is not for me. It just frustrates me how I doubt I can work due to low energy but have so much free time on my hands…

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You should work.

With all the support groups you go to its practically a part time job anyway.

You say you’re low energy, but that takes a lot of work.

How do you know you can’t do it if you haven’t tried?

Surely you can find something that’ll suit your needs.

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Somehow support groups are manageable but adding day treatment just 3 hours per day 3 days per week leaves me exhausted the entire week. I guess with support group you can rest in between. I’m not extremely low energy, somehow just low functioning enough to make tutoring hard. I am taking 1 peer coaching client and if that goes well they might give me a second client. But I’ve tried tutoring when I was higher functioning. It’s a fun job but just being present for a 6 hour school day will probably take me a week to recover.

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I vote for exercise. Just so if the nurse or doctor gives you any trash, you can pick them up by their head and fling them across the room. lol jk

I guess its a healthier life style too Good for sz

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Thanks. I go out walking a few times a week and hike on the weekends. It’s nice having a buddy, though, so if I had a client to buddy up with me that’d be nice. Today I will walk home!

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You know what, I keep going back and forth but I think maybe I will try to keep tutoring. Lately I’ve been sleeping at 8pm and that’s been helping with energy. Need to buy a car. I already go out quite a bit… idk will think about it. If I work less I can exercise more.

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Ok! Thanks for all the advice. Tomorrow I plan to get moving. Will go to see my psychiatrist, attend an art class session, buy a new lightbulb, and find a new pcp.

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