Brain melt

What happens when you shut down but can't

Wow, it’s been a month since I wrote, more than that in fact. I feel the urge to apologise, because I know that in signing up to read my writing (which I am forever grateful for), we enter into a sort of contract that I will… actually… write. But in this new-for-me era of figuring out my natural rhythms and ebbs and flows I also know that there might be a week coming up where I write every day and I hope you’ll bear with my natural inconsistencies.

As I come out of a period of brain melt, I thought I’d break my drought by writing about that. What happens when you need to shut down, burnout, collapse…. but can’t. I’ve read a lot about autistic meltdowns and shutdowns, and how people recover. But I don’t think I’ve read anything about how you do that when you can’t just stop.

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