It sounds to me like what's keeping you from feeling relaxed and refreshed may be spending the brain-energy on judging yourself on your choices of relaxing activity. Silly game-playing _is_ relaxing, it's not wasteful, it's exactly what you need sometimes.
What I tend to have the problem with is "this is my free time, but I really shouldn't be giving myself free time because there's so much to be done with the house and the house and the moving and waaah!" - I need it desperately, and once I give myself permission to actually have it both silly games and TV Tropes are totally allowed and help my mental state a lot, but the trick is letting myself to do _anything_ not strictly needful in the first place.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2012-04-21 01:12 pm (UTC)What I tend to have the problem with is "this is my free time, but I really shouldn't be giving myself free time because there's so much to be done with the house and the house and the moving and waaah!" - I need it desperately, and once I give myself permission to actually have it both silly games and TV Tropes are totally allowed and help my mental state a lot, but the trick is letting myself to do _anything_ not strictly needful in the first place.