workaholism

Lately I picked up a new acting gig. While I love acting and performance art, it tends to bring out my more toxic internal traits such as my perfectionism, competitiveness, obsessive tendencies, and workaholism.

Having stayed at home and not performed (even remotely) over the pandemic got me away from it, but now I'm back in it having to remember how to keep being myself within all the hecticness.

I don't want to lose myself in something I love ever again, but in some ways I also don't know how to have a healthy relationship with performance. I love it so much that it takes over every part of my life. How I eat, sleep, talk, even. There are times I can't turn the performance part of my brain off, and I forget I can just be *me*.

This is a journey, and I'm figuring it out.

Any other actors or performers out there who can relate? Do you have this problem?

#workaholism #Anxiety #PTSD #ADHD

A 2012 study conducted by a Norwegian group of psychology, gauged the degree of work addiction in 25 different industries.

"Workaholism is not defined by hours. It's defined by what's going inside of us."

Do you think someone can work so much that it has a negative influence on personal health?

#workaholism #Addiction#Depression