Post subject: "Busy" belief is a mental illness

I wanted to bring this up, because this is a ... problem. "Busy" is just a state of your mind and nothing else. It appears that everyone in developing world has become "busy" all of the sudden. Are they actually busy? I do not think so. Perhaps we can blame media on this. Perhaps we can blame on the abuse of technology such as cell phone. But regardless of what is creating this belief or who is trying to create this mindset, "busy" belief is becoming almost like a mental illness. Don't you all agree?

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Sorry, I'd reply to your message, but I'm too busy right now.

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Sense of humor is a good thing .

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If you define a healthy mind as a mind free of mental distress, then all people in the modern western world have a mental illness.
But if you define mental illness according to phychiatric clinical dignosis, then stress might be a contributing factor but I doubt that being in such a state of mind is enough to get a mental illness diagnosis.

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I don't know much of the definition of mental illness, but I don't think I'm the only one who hears the phrase "I'm busy" too often.

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I think having to be busy has turned into an epidemic in this modern world. Even if you aren't, you have to to be seen 'to be busy' to have any cred! It means we miss so much. Doing nothing is an art these days, and very healthy.

When was the last time you lay down on the grass on your back & just stared up to the sky? Or put on your favourite music & sat with your eyes closed to listen to it for half an hour? Or lay on a beach & let the sun warm you up, without thinking about anything? Even 40 minutes in the bath doing absolutely nothing is great. Our minds & bodies need it to keep healthy & alert.

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Yes, people seem to relegate 'not being busy' to holiday times these days, and as a result they don't know what to do with themselves!! Or they organise vacations so that they're busy busy busy all the time - so that they don't have to 'do nothing'. When I go on holiday, I do as little as I possibly can! I just sit around having a drink on a balcony, or wander aimlessly around...just looking!

For me, being on vacation & only having my absolute basics with me (ie change of clothes, toothbrush etc) is a complete weight off my shoulders & a sort of rebirth - I couldn't be 'busy' even if I tried!!

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I am one of the "always busy" types, but I genuinely believe that I AM busy!

Have I got a mental illness?

I do believe that there are different levels of being busy. As a student, I wasn't really that BUSY although peers talked of being "stressed out" because they had an essay to do, etc. But in reality, getting up at 11am and having to attend two hours of lecturers in a day, really isn't that busy at all. Not when you compare it with working a full day, and into the night, looking after a little one, and trying to train for a marathon at the same time. THAT is busy.

Aaron

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I think it varies. You get people who get to the end of the day, after having been actively working through a list of tasks, only to find that there's not a whole lot time left to sleep, and have to call it quits & carry the remainder of today's list over to tomorrow. Some people have this periodically, and some have it permanently (so-called workaholics).
In the army you learn very fast how to look busy, or some rank will make you more busy than you can ever have imagined within 5 seconds flat if you are caught not being busy. They too look rather busy while they mostly just make sure that everybody else is also looking busy.
The procrastinators, while mentally very busy, simply cannot afford to break their thoughts with actually doing anything, or at least looking like they are. The army is a good cure for this, although it has the opposite effect, resulting in minimal brain activity while looking as busy as hell.
The last group I see is the NAAFI group. (No Ambition And F-all Interest!)

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Good points. I think we all need to find a way to slow down. It's such a high-stressed, fast paced society. Appointments, bills, school, work, children, cars, it seems overwhelming sometimes. But I do take the time to relax, relate, release. Whoever mentioned hot baths, I love hot baths. I can take one for hours It helps a lot.

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