Do You Have Crash Days? (sunday)

[Sunstone]

Do you have days when you just crash? When you hardly get out of bed, or don't even get out of bed? When you call in sick to work not because you're sick, but because you're exhausted? When if you get up, you can't seem to make it out of the house? And all you want is to do is stay cocooned inside?

IF so, how often?

Do these days cause problems with your work or other aspects of your life?

How do you handle the problems they cause?

[Ozzie]

Originally Posted by Sunstone

Do you have days when you just crash? When you hardly get out of bed, or don't even get out of bed? When you call in sick to work not because you're sick, but because you're exhausted? When if you get up, you can't seem to make it out of the house? And all you want is to do is stay cocooned inside?

IF so, how often?

Do these days cause problems with your work or other aspects of your life?

How do you handle the problems they cause?

Crash days where a sickie seems a good idea are part of good self management. Trying not to get sick if you can is a good idea IMO. Staying at home is not a copout. Work there for me too. I go to work to have a break.

[RevOxley_501]

Originally Posted by Sunstone

Do you have days when you just crash? When you hardly get out of bed, or don't even get out of bed? When you call in sick to work not because you're sick, but because you're exhausted? When if you get up, you can't seem to make it out of the house? And all you want is to do is stay cocooned inside?

Yes, occasionally i do---i might do this once a month or less---maybe every few months i will do it on a work day---(when i just HAVE to have a day off). My wife and i seem to be doing this alot now together on the weekends--just laying in bed--- alot, or just sleeping in on the weekend. I usually dont have time because i have computers to work on, but we did that this sunday, only left the house for about an hour to pick up some stuff at the walsmart.


IF so, how often?

Once a month or so. Rarely take days from work for it.

Do these days cause problems with your work or other aspects of your life?

they did at my old job as a bank teller, i required them more---it was a very stressful job and i just had to sometimes.

How do you handle the problems they cause?
If it becomes a problem i simply accept the consequences. I believe employers should empathise to a certain extent.

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[dbakerman76]

I try to make one day a week a crash day. I generally try to do that on my one day off each week. Its the only way I can get through the rest of the week usually. I've been doing it for as long as I can remember. It has never affected my job but it does affect my relationships with other people (my gf, friends, family).

[RevOxley_501]

i generally refer to my crash day as a "sabbath"

[JMoum04]

I don't have crash days anymore, but when I was younger and in middle school and highschool, every other weekend I would go to sleep Saturday night, wake up Sunday morning to eat breakfast, then go back to bed and not wake up until Monday morning. After a long sleep like that I was nice and recharged and ready to take on the world.

[michel]

I hardly ever 'Crashed' when I worked - which may be a very good explanation as to why I am so decrepid now..........

[RevOxley_501]

would you say you are crashing in retirement michel?

[Jaymes]

I have days like that happen to me a lot, though because I often just can't afford to miss anything happening in school I force myself to get out of bed and drag through the day.

It usually happens several times a month.