Why bedrotting isn't always helpful

Essentially bed rotting, which is just a colloquial term by the way - this is not a clinical term, you won't find it in the DSM, it's not officially a symptom of anything - it's generally thought of as being like a break from life. Bed rotting is typically described in positive terms as being sort of a vacation from the grind of productivity that we all live under.

As you can probably guess by the title of this video, I don't really align with that. I have significant concerns about as it relates to your mental health.
Before I critique bed rotting though, let me start by saying I get it. I understand what a grind this life can be and I know a lot of us are out there working very hard day in and day out with little reward, little to no immediate gratification, and maybe the faint promise that at some point sometime in the future things get better. That's hard, that's depressing, that's frustrating, that's demoralizing.

I've been there myself, especially in grad school. Days start to run together, everything starts to look kind of gray, and we have, at least in America, we have this hustle culture right - this grind mentality, this constant pressure to be productive in some way or another even when we're not on the clock at our jobs.

Being in that mindset 24/7 is not good for probably 99% of people. There is a very very small subset of people who thrive under those conditions - most of us do not. We need breaks, we need variety, we need novelty. These are very real human needs that our current social structure does not do a great job of setting up for us.

That being said, I don't believe that most bed rotting practices are an effective way to meet these needs. The main reason is we need to be able to assess whether we are physically exhausted or mentally exhausted. Laying in bed all day could be a very good way to recover from physical exhaustion. It is not going to be very effective in recovering from mental exhaustion because the way we recover from mental exhaustion isn't by doing nothing - it is by doing something that isn't stressful.

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