Work and Depression: The Football Cure!

It’s Sunday and I woke up slightly down with a lot of email to answer! I’m going to watch football for most of the day so that I can do all of my email. I’m a big believer that we have to continually search for a work environment that works for us individually. You may think that watching football and working is crazy, but I’m the type that needs a lot of noise and distraction if I’m not doing well- ie, I like to work in a lively environment when I’m depressed. I hear a lot of chatter in my head and the football just makes it easier for me to concentrate. I work at the library with my headphones if I have to do serious writing. Getting there is a problem though. It’s just a brain struggle sometimes. Where do you get the most work done? julie

1 comment to Work and Depression: The Football Cure!

Monique

October 7, 2008 at 5:18 pm

I sometimes find if very useful to have something on tv that I’m not going to be overly distracted by . . . like football. Unless there’s something momentous happening, like a touchdown, I just work on other things. Sometimes I can write really well in a crowded public location. I did that once at Disneyland’s Downtown. All the noise and energy around me lets me just go ahead and do what I do naturally — put words on paper in some sort of order.

And still I do much of my writing at home, when it’s quiet.