Overwhelm

I used to hit overwhelm at a certain point. I could handle certain things. Now, however, I can’t handle the same things, because my starting point is nowhere near where it used to be. Imagine you hadn’t slept through the night for several days in a row and were utterly exhausted. Now, go do something that was always hard for you to handle emotionally/mentally, even after a good night’s sleep. That’s where I am, but a year and a half into that not-sleeping situation, and already hitting overwhelm limits every day from the exhaustion of raising a baby almost 24/7 solo. So, yeah. It’s really stinking hard. And I just can’t handle the same stuff I used to be able to handle.

And people get mad at me for not being able to do that. And that sucks.

Post-a-day 2026