【推荐1】Are you someone who easily gets tired and doesn’t feel like doing anything? Do you label this kind of behavior as mere laziness?     1    

Feel disconnected from everything.

People experiencing exhaustion most commonly don’t feel like themselves anymore, don’t feel engaged by anything and constantly struggle with the sense of helplessness and inability to take back control of their lives.

Used to be motivated and passionate.

A clear difference between someone who’s worn out and someone who’s lazy is that the tired people used to have things they were passionate about.     2     And even hate doing anything because of how much they overworked themselves.

Become moody and annoyed.

Do you suddenly find yourself easily angry?     3     If you start to have trouble controlling your emotions, especially when it never used to be a problem for you, this might be the reason why.

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One of the warning signs is that you start neglecting your self-care and socially keep away from others. You stop making an effort to dress up yourself or look good and you tend to spend most of your time by yourself doing nothing.

Changes happen gradually.

Studies show that exhaustion develops in five major stages, according to degrees of severity. The honeymoon phase, the onset of stress, chronic stress, exhaustion and habitual exhaustion. By the time you reach the final stage, exhaustion will make you suffer from depression and anxiety.     5    

【推荐2】We can shop alone, go to the gym, and-obviously-do all the daily activities like going to work alone.     1     Going out for a meal or going to the cinema alone is the very example.

People shared their lonely feelings on the Internet and listed the top 10 international lonely situations, such as having hotpot alone or undergoing an operation alone.     2    

But actually, it depends on you.     3     There are a handful of benefits once you learn to adapt to loneliness. When you start to enjoy being alone, you’ll gain a greater perspective on your own emotions. You’ll create a deeper understanding of what makes you happy, what upsets you, and what saddens you. So if your family members or partners are not at hand, or you leave home to find a job in another city, please don’t complain and get discouraged with life. Be positive and enjoy it.

    4     Since you aren’t spending so much time dealing with the thoughts and feelings of others, it’s the best time to turn your focus inwards.

In addition, when you start to enjoy being alone, you’ll come to find that you also enjoy your relationships with other people even more.     5     You’ll feel more confident in your ability to actually be alone. And that naturally leads to you feeling more independent.

No matter how you feel about being alone, keeping yourself comfortable and happy is the most important thing in the world.

【推荐3】I am an anxious traveller. I arrive at airports and train stations extra early. I double-check all of my documents, feeling a tightness in my jaw and a slight clench in my stomach until I’ve arrived where I’m going. I used to feel bad about it, seeing it as absurd and weak. However, I’ve learned to respect my tendency to be cautious.

Recently, I was driving along a rural road at the start of a long trip that would mainly be on a large motorway. I began feeling that something could go wrong. What if I run out of petrol? I worried, even though I still had plenty. So when I spied a petrol station just before the road I was going to take onto the motorway, I decided to fill up. Just in case. And that’s when I discovered that one of my front tyres was flat. If I’d overpowered my unease, talked down my anxiety, the tyre would have blown at speed on the motorway. My urge to plan ahead even though it wasn’t strictly necessary saved me from a potentially catastrophic scenario.

A growing number of psychologists and neuroscientists agree anxiety and other negative feelings have a role to play in our lives. Tracy Dennis Tiwary, who recently published Future Tense: Why Anxiety Is Good for You, thinks our culture goes overboard in demonising(妖魔化) difficult emotions. She knows what it’s like to get overwhelmed by anxiety. “I remember a period at work when there was a lot going on. Worries kept waking me up at 4 am. It was like a yucky cloud of free-floating anxiety,” she says.

Instead of trying to repress this uneasy feeling, however, Dennis Tiwary leaned into it. She recognized the niggling thing, gave it space and learned from it. Finally she wrote down two or three things she could do to address it. The next morning, she felt calmer.

【推荐1】Leading a sustainable(不破坏环境的)lifestyle doesn’t require you to have to make great changes to your home, and this kind of transformation doesn’t have to be an exhausting exercise.     1     Here are three of them.

    2     By using solar energy, you will make your home far more sustainable. So long as there is the sun in the sky, the solar panels atop your house will catch the rays and then transform them into electricity.

Make changes to your water drinking habits. Have you ever thought about how many single-use plastic bottles you use a year? If you should ever perform such a count, you’d find yourself well into three figures, or maybe even four.     3     To be truly sustainable, you have to change your water drinking habits.

    4     More often than not, these types of straws are used only once before being got rid of and taking up valuable landfill space.

Reduce your transport emission. If you want to be a more sustainable traveler, you should seek to reduce the carbon emissions you produce by avoiding driving. Of course, avoiding motor vehicles entirely isn’t always going to be a practical choice for you. There’re, however, still things you can do to be more sustainable.     5    

You have the power to make a sustainable change to your lifestyle—take the above advice and don’t waste it