aevait's too bad that I'm only just starting to learn how to manage my dysautonomia properly here at the tail end of my 30s. i know all the tricks to exist in a state of perpetual sympathetic nervous system over-activation, but if I could shut all of that off abruptly at the end of the work day and just feel the appropriate amount of tired and hungry such that I could actually rest then I'd be unstoppable
lunch breaks are so funny. you've been in a state of high activation for several hours? great! here, have a fraction of an hour to shut all of that down enough to be able to digest food whoops times up!
Martin Kift@aeva they have never worked for me partly for that reason, so I take the bad route of working through lunch whilst munching a bit of food - but don't follow my lead folks.
@MouseByTheSea back before the war, when I still commuted to an office downtown I'd just grab lunch on the way in and take my lunch break right away and then just work for 7 hours straight. I don't know that was any better than what I do now, since I'd always end my day crashing really bad, but, eh, tradeoffs and all that.
@aeva nod, everyone is different and it helps to have some flexibility in one’s schedule. Personally if I take a full lunch I lose track of what I’m doing, plus I work better in the morning and early afternoon anyway - my brain, for what it is, starts to switch off as the work day wains.