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~inquiry

> Restless hand and mind syndrome. I suffer from
> ittoo. I like to think that I'd live out my
> retirementin some virtual reality game-sphere thing,
> but I'vehad vacations where I do nothing but that
> and itgets mind-numbingly boring.

"Doing the dishes" (manually) provides the most relief.

And that's actually childhood related, as I recall at family gatherings on my dad's side feeling far more comfortable around the "womanfolk" (a non-offensive term in my day) than the men in conversations after the meal. The males seemed what I want to call "uncomfortably gruff" in speech, and of course at least one wasn't unfamiliar with drinking at levels conducive to "saying things you probably shouldn't". That invariably led - yea, drove - me to becoming the primary dish-washer at such events.

> You lucky SOB! Stress does the opposite for me,
> whereI just gain and gain without release. At least
> youcan look at yourself in the mirror amidst the
> mostwretched mindset and think "hey, I still got it".

Oh, sure... load me up with quality guilting while I'm down and out! :-)

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~tetris wrote:

I find that doing the dishes gives me time to think and reflect out loud over the dinn of the dishes themselves, and usually my partner comes home to find me ranting at glassware about one thing or another.

I'm trying to work out whether doing manual repetitive tasks is a way of detoxing my brain (by venting my woes), or whether I'm enforcing some bad behaviours here.

Hmm. Maybe I shouldn't clean for my mental health... that'd be a convenient excuse