When your mental state is on the edge, stick to the textbook!

Good morning, this is Sanku.

It is Monday morning. Although it is not the case now, back in my days at a black company, my mind was never present on Mondays.

I would hate everything that came to mind. When I woke up in the morning, my schedule for the day would automatically pop into my head.

I would have to spend 14 hours a day (including commute time) with colleagues I didn't even want to see, and a boss who made me tremble just by looking at them.

The time I spent with my family yesterday felt like a dream within a dream, and when I passed the road I took for leisure on my way to work, I wanted to just escape back to the same place as yesterday.

Thinking about it now, I wish I had lived a wild life where I would have just turned off the road to work, hopped on the highway, played my favorite music, and gone to the place I visited with my family yesterday without thinking about anything. (In the end, I officially handed in my resignation and quit! What a coward I was!)

That said, no matter how much I fantasized, the destination was always the box containing the colleagues and boss I hated.

My senior used to say that no matter how much you hate a place, the hardest part is just getting there, and once you arrive, you'll be able to resign yourself to the fact that you have no choice but to do it, but that never worked for me.

Once I arrived, I felt like I couldn't be myself, knowing I would be confined for half a day in a place surrounded by walls with no freedom.

Well, this didn't just happen on Mondays, but every single day, and I think the reason I managed to stay sane was because I practiced the basic things for maintaining mental health that are written in textbooks.

When your heart is truly one step away from screaming,

Sleep well, eat well, rest well, relax well, and exercise well.

The fact that these things are written in every textbook means that while our predecessors have tried many ways to maintain mental health, the basic methods are ultimately the best.

When you are truly suffering, you want to find a quick fix or some unheard-of, wild way of thinking to feel better instantly.

However, if you look at the textbooks, they are full of boring things like 'sleep well.' This is just because while our predecessors invented countless techniques, only the ones that actually work survived, and the quick-fix ideas just didn't work.

In the 'Health' section of the public relations magazine issued by the local government, and in the remarks column of the stress check distributed by the company, it says that a tip for not accumulating stress is to 'release it effectively' lol.

The second line probably mentions 'sleep, rest, and exercise' lol.

But that's all there is, isn't it? It's basic, but it's about taking it one step at a time to recover both mentally and physically.

During my black company days, although I had little rest time, when I was in a real pinch, I spent all my time outside of eating and communicating with my family sleeping, and I exercised 365 days a year, so I somehow managed to be okay lol.

In conclusion, the point was that maybe all the answers are in the local government's public relations magazine.