The Weight of Being Emotionally Drained
Are you emotionally drained? You’re not alone, I am too.
*I want to make clear that I am okay! I’ve had a lot going on and this was a particularly more difficult night. As I was crying, it felt right to take a picture and share my own experience visually for this article.❤️
I understand your exhaustion, emotions, and weight. I know that it’s exhausting to continue being in a place of such low emotions. I know it feels like it’s never ending and that this heaviness is ongoing. I know that one moment you may feel like you have everything under control and the next it’s as if you never had anything handled.
I know and understand this all but I promise you it will not be there forever.
I am emotionally drained from various events in my life but I also have hope that this is just a moment in time — a chapter in my life. I also know that I can do something about it so that I can move forward and settle this low by talking to others around me.
I am exhausted but I have not given up because there is more to my emotional exhaustion.
And there is more to yours too.
The weight of being emotionally drained will take it’s toll but there is more to it. There is more to the existence of your personal emotions because it’s preparing and teaching you something that is bigger than you. But what you are feeling may also be what others in your circumstance are feeling to some extent. In other words, it may affect others too. Look at the bigger picture, look at the way that others around you feel as well as how you feel. You don’t have to only look at one at a time.
Most likely others are feeling some way similar to you because being drained emotionally is not uncommon. In fact it is so common that we may overlook what it means to be emotionally drained.
So what is this weight I am referring to as being emotionally drained?
Emotional drainage can come in many forms. It can come from crying a lot, feeling many intense emotions in a small or prolonged period of time, being in highly emotional circumstances, faking your emotions, taking care of other's emotions, or just taking them on. If you pair not getting enough sleep with any of these it is especially draining emotionally.
When you feel emotionally drained everything is tired. Your body can become heavy, your eyes may want to close, your head can hurt or is just fuzzy, you may have a difficult time concentrating or performing daily tasks, socializing can be hard, you feel more comfortable in bed than anywhere else, and so on.
I am personally just exhausted. I feel like I have energy one minute and the next I can barely stay awake or I find my body just moving slower.
Despite the obvious signs of fatigue, some people may actually be highly functional when they are emotionally drained. For instance, they may feel exhausted in all forms but still function normally on the outside or may even do more. This can be a result of trying to suppress emotions and/or faking them.
Emotional drainage doesn’t just effect your emotional health, it effects your physical and mental health as well.
When you are emotionally drained the exhaustion you feel from negative emotions may lead you to do less of normal daily activities such as eat, drink water, and workout. When important things such as these are neglected your physical health begins to decline.
Additionally, during emotional drainage your mental health also declines. Your mental health is one of the most important things to care for during intense emotional times yet it is the most neglected.
The effect of neglecting your mental health trickles down to everything else in your life — daily functioning, positivity & perspective, physical health, socializing, etc.
However, it’s still possible to take care of your mental health even when you are drained. It may seem impossible, but it’s really not. If you feel like it’s impossible that may be because of the way you percieve the reason for your exhaustion.
The weight of intense emotions do not go away over night. You need to let yourself be exhausted and feel your feelings but you can also let yourself move forward after you have done the work of feeling.
However, no matter how you become emotionally drained or how you deal with it, it will take a toll on you. You can be strong and power through it but at the same time you also need to let yourself go through it.
And no matter what, I promise you, the weight and exhaustion will not last forever.
❤️🌻 Thank you for reading!
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