SECS 8 Week 4: The mental health of a content creator

Hello hello beautiful people of the Steemit health Community, i hope you all are waxing string. Well it's another opportunity to make use of the steeemit engagement contest on the topic of Mental health of content creators organized by this amazing community. In a little while i will begin giving my points of view with reference to the guiding questions asked. Hope you all enjoy going through my post.

Creating co tent is an art for me because I love using words to play and express my innermost emotions. Infact i mostly feel happy when creating content because writing is one of my passions. And also communication of a particular burden in a language that can benefit another person is quite fun most times. But that is not the case at all times.

Days do vary one from another and creating content on a day where i feel happy and not too exhausted from the other activities of the day, especially from work or church. Most times at these moments you have the inspiration for a content but the body doesn't respond to the need of creating a content. These are not pleasant moments for a content creator to create a content and at the end of the day, you breakdown and sleep off.

The end of the matter is that creating content is fun at one moment and is not very fun at another moment because of the circumstances surrounding you at a particular moment in time. But overall it's a cool process.

Oh yes of course, they say in consistency lies the key, but at times the consistency itself drains you a lot. I have felt mentally exhausted by content generation especially here on steemit. Imagine creating contents everyday and consistently. That will mean that you have inspiration everyday and it may vary depending on the context you write on.

Most especially with the physical work i do as i aforementioned, i am a Laboratory technician and i work 6 days in a week. We all know how dealing with a person's results is very critical for the health of the patient. And so i do a lot of research on new disease outcomes and what i may find as disturbances in the microscope or in any other test i am to run. And added to that i am also a very active member of the church where i fellowship and have been given assignments.

So mentally, i go through a lot in my mind that at times i tend to go off steemit for sometime to regain my mind back before i come back. Most times even to create a diary game might be difficult because I had no time to either take pictures of the day or have time to write because of tiredness.

Here there are 2 scenarios i would like to put in play. And the first one is that i might have put so much in a content when creating it that i expect it to have the best of comments and engagements and even upvotes as you might expect. In that case then i might get a little bit discouraged because I invested a lot in the content while i created. But then, we have to understand that what i value may not be what others would like. Overall in this situation i will feel bad that i pit in so much work and the work didn't yield good fruits. It affects my zeal and mental health to continue blogging.

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The second scenario is where i created a content and the audience and they received it and it had many engagements but the comments were criticisms and we're t even constructive. I don't know if you have ever done your best and a person just comes and rejects your work, again in a bizarre manner😂 i will feel bad and rejected at the same time, but the end of the matter is that i will amend my next post with respect to the criticisms and make it better.

All the two scenarios affect me mentally and doesn't encourage me to continue blogging anymore, but i don't give up at all and i continue doing my best to be better and better.

By my little experience, i would advice firstly that no matter what happens on your content as a negative comment, avoid making it come into your heart to the point of making you restless, because everyone is entitled to his or her opinion in life.

Always have your resting time already scheduled. Science has proven that a man who rests well has a healthy and a sound mind. Create time to rest your brain especially if you have a physical job which keeps you busy during the day. Also, when you rest, your ideas come out freshly baked from the oven.

Create a timetable which will make sure that you don't mismanage your time for one activity for another. Imagine having 3pm as your resting time and you find yourself blogging at that time and at the end of the day you sleep only 3hours in the day, that will increase the brain stress.

Each time you see a negative comment on your post, just take in a deep breathe and say "it is for my good" and answer with a peaceful mind. No one can do better than you except yourself. Don't compare with another person but keep track with your achievements.

Thank you so much for this beautiful opportunity to share about the health of a content creator, I'd like to invite @fonjougiresse, @wintia23 and @munaa to take part in this contest. God bless you.