How do you deal with bad cyclic burnout?
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For some odd reason I burnout very frequently, or more like I get so brain dead that I literally cannot even come up with an Idea of what to do, let alone act on it. It feels like when I even try to start I get so exhausted that I have to lay down.
It always happens after I'm the most productive, but my down time feels so much longer than the time I get to create. I'd say I have at least 4 days to a week of productivity, and about 2 - 3 weeks of burnout. It's nuts.
The cycle repeats, though it can vary wildly in how long each part is.
I'm starting to get hella annoyed since I haven't drawn a thing in over a year and I was finally getting back into the groove at least doodling daily, just to be derailed hard.
I was thinking that I just lack creativity, but it became this catch-22 of "I have to actually draw with purpose and make things that I enjoy" and "I am so fucking tired that even opening a sketchbook or cleaning makes me want to take a nap / drop into a dead sleep".
What are your thoughts?
Bipolar disorder generally gets worse with time, it's a degenerative illness
Source on both of those, please?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7524411/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36435402/
That's fun to know haha, I always thought that it was constant and some people just had it worse
Some people do have it worse, that's true.
But each episode increases the risk and potency of new episodes, especially when unmedicated