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Presently I try to schedule 1-2 "rest" days a week to hold myself in check and avoid crashing. When I feel good I still, 4 years later, forget to keep it slow and wind up with a crash again, like the universe continually reminds me! What a cycle. The holidays were brutal, it took 10 days to recover, but I knew that in advance and didn't schedule anything for a week. I am so glad they are over and life gets back to my version of normal. I don't think I can get too much rest, only because life goes on and I still need to manage my home, grocery shop cut my hair, go to appointments. What does help is only scheduling 1 thing a day-sometimes life gets in the way of that and I pay for it but I am glad I know what to expect now.

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This was really helpful, thank you. Now that I’m (recently) retired, I’ve been thinking about scheduling Weds, Sat& Sun as rest days. But this means more than 1 thing has to be scheduled on the other days - more like 3-4 tings per day. Like the other commenter said, guess I just need to try it out and see what takes. Whatever it is it will be better than when I was working 50 hrs/week, and triage’ing everything else in my personal life.