A reflection on rest and odd numbers is hijacked by NBA mascots
No, really, I'm fine. I'm FINE!
I wrote this tweet and a lot of people seem to like it
Look at all those likes.
Thing is, I heard about it in conversation with someone. I think I have the same five they listed. And they must have gathered it from somewhere.
But it turns out there are other takes on how many rest types there are and what each one is.
The 7 types of rest that every person needs from TED
This guy thinks there’s five - 5 Types of Rest We Need to Be Productive Every Day
Over at Guideposts, they stick with the odd number but they make some cuts - 3 Types of Rest That Help Us Stay Positive.
Stephanie Barron Hall triples the Guidepost guidepost - Nine Types of Rest.
Look, the important thing is that you’re doing it wrong.
Children aren’t THAT resilient
It’s convenient to say that young people can bounce back from things. It’s not especially true. With the two year mark approaching and Omicron dragging everyone back to the pre-vaccination panic days, kids are messed the f up.
A sobering essay in the NYT from Dr. Jonathan Slater, a child and adolescent psychiatrist.
With Omicron, it is clear that anxiety is starting to spiral out of control even further, in a sort of PTSD response, as people are flashing back to traumatic memories of the beginning of the pandemic. Until a few weeks ago, I could almost feel that things were getting better. Kids were back in school both locally and at college, playing sports and attending after-school activities, and everyone seemed to be adapting to what clearly is an endemic. Now what?
In the past several weeks, I have gotten more and more calls from extremely depressed and overwhelmed college students who are taking medical leaves from school and need me to email professors or fill out the necessary paperwork. I can’t find clinicians near their colleges to treat them, and their college health services are often limited in the amount of regular mental health care they can provide.
There are many stories I’m not going to link to
I just saw a headline about mental health crisis hotlines being overwhelmed with first time callers in the Phoenix area. I was going to click on it, link to it, tell you about it, but then I didn’t. Here’s the Phoenix Suns Gorilla.
There is no shortage of mental health news stories about s being f’ed the h up. Stuff is bad all over.
I kind of wonder if my mission here on this newsletter is to tell you HOW bad it is, provide some helpful tips on what YOU can do about it, provide some dollop of HOPE for how it’s going to get better, randomly CAPITALIZE certain words or WHAT.
I think I should steer a little bit away from “it’s bad all over” stories. It already feels bad all over and I’m not sure if reinforcing that with proof is the best way to go.
I've never been much of a “hey cheer up, champ” kind of guy but I think the best path for me is to shine a small flashlight at some path of persistence.
I used to be at some Sonics games for radio interviews and the guy who played Squatch made sure that no one ever saw him in partial gear. You’d see him all suited up or nothing. Not sure why. Kind of like how Carroll Spinney, who played Big Bird, didn’t want publicity photos of him holding Big Bird’s decapitated head.
I digress.
Anyway, yeah, mental health is bad all over.
Let’s check in with our Depresh Mode guests on Twitter
Just think…
We’re only a few days away from people returning to school and work! And then this worst time of year will be over for another 51 WEEKS!!