[Mwntalhwalth]

Wfh since long before covid (15 years) . It will 100% burn you out slowly while you think you are better and stronger than it. Feels good at the beginning likely b.c your current job is super toxic and your away from your boss but there are many factors largely due to isolation that will settle in.

To survive wfh you need to concentrate heavily on early morning sunlight, walks throughout the day, yoga, acupuncture, blue light glasses at night time, major attempts to get out and socialize outside of work, creating a safe place in your home for working so you don't mix them together, get out in nature, tend to a garden otherwise aka try really hard not to work after hours and offset the toxicity of wfh.

[Cyclone_]

I've felt the same way. At first it felt great to be able to get more done both at work and at home. But I did feel more isolated as time went on. The last in person place(with some hybrid) I was at had super toxic coworkers but the 2 places I've been at that are fully remote all had great ones. So it's a little disappointing now that they don't allow in person.

[hdgvhicv]

WFH since 2011, I don’t recognise your statement at all.

[Mwntalhwalth]

Nothing is completely binary. I've studied stress and one of the other big factors to note is loss of control and what that can do to oneself. It's nice to be able to walk into someone's office and just settle something vs letting it cook and propogate among the many other intracscies from long term wfh. Greatly depends on if your running things I think, working with a team, the type of work you do etc

Stress compounds and hides. Our monkey brains are dumb with long term issues and can easily be masked by substances.

Care to share more on what's worked well for you?

[wonderwonder]

I’ve been isolated via work from home for so long I don’t even see people who aren’t my wife and kids as real anymore. When I interact with them it’s like they are just npc’s in a game. They vanish as soon as they are out of sight to preserve system resources. Wife will start talking to me about someone Ive met 5 times before and I have no idea who she’s talking about.

I literally don’t know anyone outside of my household and I’m completely fine with it. It’s just how things are now.

I have the gym and that’s enough

[throwaway2037]

    > blue light glasses at night time

And avoid seed oils, right?

[Mwntalhwalth]

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28548897/ I have no idea what you are talking about re seed oils I mentioned sleep in the context of eliminating melatonin disruption.

Slowly cooking yourself isn't obvious until it's obvious.

[mh2266]

I have two extra hours per day to exercise, and… I can do it in the middle of the day when the gym and bike paths are mostly empty.

¯\(ツ)/¯ works for me!