{"id":609,"date":"2017-11-26T09:17:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T19:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/?p=609"},"modified":"2017-11-26T09:18:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T19:18:35","slug":"work-life-balance-and-detaching-from-work-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/26\/work-life-balance-and-detaching-from-work-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Work\/Life Balance and Detaching from Work (Article)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2017\/11\/how-to-emotionally-detach-from-work.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2017\/11\/how-to-emotionally-detach-from-work.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I happened upon this earlier this month and it got me thinking about several subjects. One thing that is true of me is that my dysthymia isn&#8217;t at a severity where I cease to be able to work. On the contrary I think some of my workaholic tendencies stem from a coping mechanism which isn&#8217;t necessarily completely healthy.<\/p>\n<p>Kristin Wong&#8217;s post is a good review of the need to frame your attachment to work in a mental model that is productive but not all encompassing. Losing your identity to your job is a dangerous slope. It makes set back sand challenges too personal and starts to chip away at your sense of self and self-worth. For me the idea of not complaining about work is a challenge, especially being a tech employee where it sometimes seems like a myriad of things can and do go wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guilty of working long hours and bulldogging problems to the point that I do think I&#8217;ve taken too much work home with me both physically and emotionally.\u00a0 I&#8217;m trying to fit my balance and objectivity about work so that I don&#8217;t really care when things don&#8217;t go well as long as I feel I am putting forth what is right both business wise and personally.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2017\/11\/how-to-emotionally-detach-from-work.html I happened upon this earlier this month and it got me thinking about several subjects. One thing that is true of me is that my dysthymia isn&#8217;t at a severity where I cease to be able to work. On the contrary I think some of my workaholic tendencies stem from a coping mechanism which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/26\/work-life-balance-and-detaching-from-work-article\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Work\/Life Balance and Detaching from Work (Article)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-slice","category-depression"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PG4O-9P","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}