How to survive at work when you feel overwhelmed all the time?

Leena Arjun K
2 min readApr 8, 2021

The feeling of being overwhelmed sends thousands of emotions from your brain to your toe. It’s a feeling that never goes away, it’s always present, standing behind you waiting to jump in when you start a pool of stress, tears and non confidence.

All our lives, we work our asses off to find that one job that pays us well, has a two day weekend holiday and probably has a cool office to work in.

But when we get it, why do we feel as half hearted? Shouldn’t we be working better and maybe HAPPIER?

Well on the not so brighter side, feeling overwhelmed is hard, it makes you question everything, your worth, whether you deserve this job, whether you want to do this in your life and the not so confident thoughts can go on.

But above this all, have you stopped to realize why is this happening?

Your feeling overwhelmed because you know your good, you know that you’re doing the best you can, your in a much better position.

You feel this way because your scared, scared that these good things will move away from you, that you will be fired, that you won’t do anything great in life, but if you see closely, your in a much better space and these thoughts are your occasion negative thoughts that test you to survive.

You can’t move away from this, but there is something you can do to make a reduce it:

  1. When you start to feel this way, list out all the great things you have in life, even the minute things count such as capable to pay your bills, finding the job on your own, your journey in your career and more. These things will ignite the powerful you which faded for a second.
  2. Take a break, write your feelings or if comfortable speak to your loved ones, do something that makes you hear yourself. Get away from advice's, you need someone to hear you.
  3. Move away from your work desk and relax, take a break do what you love, watch an episode on your binge watch list, eat what makes you happy, lie down and stare blank, divert your mind in things you prefer doing.

Experiencing overwhelming myself, I can tell you its hard but there are days where I feel maybe I could use an umbrella under the rain and then there are also days where I feel I can stand the rain pour through.

You’d do fine love, you always do!

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Leena Arjun K

Words are her best friend as she writes every content with empathy and a piece of her soul. This talent helps her express her mind when actions fall short.