I know unemployment has got to be putting you through the wringer, so I'm not going to pretend like I "understand what you're going through," but I can certainly identify with a lot of the emotional and mental behaviors/patterns you describe. Moreover, I started running again for many of the same sorts of reasons that I think you do. I picked something that was hard, exhausting, and often times not fun at all. To make it even more "fun," I gave myself a stupidly difficult goal to work towards: turning my sprinter self into someone who can finish a marathon. Will I succeed? Dunno. Am I saying you should run a marathon? Not unless you want to. But I find that in some situations, it is necessary to set a non-critical goal to work towards, if for no other reason than to give your brain - and in this case, body as well - something to gnaw on other than itself. In this case, that which is physically exhausting sometimes helps tire the mind out a bit too, so it can rest.
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Just food for thought.
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