Plugging back in?

I was just thinking right now that I have a few meetings coming up with more than  one person on the same day.   I have not done that for a while now.

One important Mental Health message: If your so busy becoming "successful" that you can't take real time out for yourself (read: REAL DOWNTIME doing nothing or activities that are relaxing and centering) at some point, you will stretch yourself to a point that you will snap.  Just like a useful rubber band that is doing the most simple looking task like holding a stack of business cards together on your desk.  If you leave that rubber band stretched out long enough doing that simple task (its still stretched) which could be like you doing what seem like "your daily routine" it can get old, dried out and eventually, you will pick up that stack of cards and it will just break.  There are tons of memes out there that are all about how much energy we have when we are on the right path etc.and I may be wrong here but "the right path" has nothing to do with how many cars you have in your driveway or how big that driveway is.  I would like to propose that the right path is one that leaves you feeling energised AND feeling refreshed each and every day -- not groggily drinking a coffee in the morning and feeling anxious because you might be missing some "important" meeting.
 Its been ME time for 6 months as I am going through recovery...  And the ME time is going to continue until I have come to a point that I know I can then slowly plug back into the fast paced life BUT only to the point where I am not feeling over-stretched!  If you know  someone that is going through a tough time mentally or dealing with some adversity, the best thing you can help them to do is FULLY UNPLUG. They don't need someone who has no experience with this recovery thing telling them stuff like "you need to get back to being a regular person and feel fulfilled with a job etc. etc.
Going back at "regular life" too soon is a sure recipe for disaster.  I would never have said this before because I was the worst one for it,  but now that I have been in this little world called "recovery" for just this short amount of time I keep seeing the same pattern:  The person goes back to work etc. and immediately has a relapse after it looked like they were doing so well.  What is the point of doing a task (this one being helping yourself get well) if you are going to shoot yourself in the foot by going back to exactly what got you to this point in the first place before you are really ready?

Just some thoughts for the day.  Take your time: people will understand.

EJM