Thanks! As someone that is right now deep inside a such hole I can relate.
This autopilot you mention is what cracks me time and time again. If you are not somewhat relaxed after days or weeks of heavy exercise you fail to accomplish the most simple tasks you actually want to do.
This effectivly kills my self-esteem and self-worth every time again.
It was different in school to me, then I rode my bike to school 20km a day and did martial arts 2-3 times a week. Actually failing to "perform" in academics and life in general is at least for me heavily correlated with having hard workouts.
If you skip workout, pull an all nighter you feel that you set yourself up for bad things again and It's incredible hard to get your feed on the ground again.
Just one data point: Medition never worked well for me (even did a 10 days sit-in) but progressive muscle relaxation on the other hand worked quite well. I also had good experience with the whole "Qi" concept from Aikido* (focus on a point in your lower abdomen). But nothing really works too well without the basic exercise you outlined.
Do you have any more information related to this condition?
* Qi is pseudo-science. I'm aware of that. However the idea is a powerful concept to focus.
This autopilot you mention is what cracks me time and time again. If you are not somewhat relaxed after days or weeks of heavy exercise you fail to accomplish the most simple tasks you actually want to do.
This effectivly kills my self-esteem and self-worth every time again.
It was different in school to me, then I rode my bike to school 20km a day and did martial arts 2-3 times a week. Actually failing to "perform" in academics and life in general is at least for me heavily correlated with having hard workouts.
If you skip workout, pull an all nighter you feel that you set yourself up for bad things again and It's incredible hard to get your feed on the ground again.
Just one data point: Medition never worked well for me (even did a 10 days sit-in) but progressive muscle relaxation on the other hand worked quite well. I also had good experience with the whole "Qi" concept from Aikido* (focus on a point in your lower abdomen). But nothing really works too well without the basic exercise you outlined.
Do you have any more information related to this condition?
* Qi is pseudo-science. I'm aware of that. However the idea is a powerful concept to focus.