Do you have a hard time letting go of your work? When? What do you do about it?

Oh, yes. It’s compounded by my working from home, too. The boundaries between work & home are seriously blurred for both me & my husband. (He works from home, too.)

It also seems that many of my coworkers take a break around dinner time and then go back to working in the evening before bed. I often check email around bedtime only to end up with my brain stuck gnawing on some lingering problem like a dog with a bone.

I’m definitely better off (and get to sleep earlier) on those evenings that I shut down the computer before dinner and intentionally don’t check email till the next day.

When I’m on a work trip or particularly busy I often find my coworkers popping up in my dreams (or maybe nightmare is better way to describe it..). Work definitely collides with personal time, and quite frequently.

What do I do about it? It’s a constant balancing act both ways.
I absolve myself of guilt when I occasionally start of load of laundry or talk to my kids when “I should be working”.
I also listen when my husband grumps at me to quit working for the day and give him a hand making dinner.
As I was saying to my hubby over lunch today – I still think I’m incredibly fortunate to get to have breakfast, lunch and dinner together with my kids each day that I’m not traveling. It’s a huge “perk” to my job in my humble opinion and I’ll take the occasional extra late night of work for it any day.

Yes, I have found that Calms Forte, an herbal sleep and anti-anxiety medication is the best way for me to turn off busy brain.

Always. I dream about modding all the time. To save myself from mulling things over before I go to sleep, I just stay away until I’m too exhausted to think. Not very workable for most people, probably.

I have found it is not good to be too attached to work. Fortunately, I’ve worked hard to reduce work stress in my life, and it isn’t too hard to let go of my work, these days. I don’t miss that sense of things being terribly important. I don’t miss that sense of wanting to achieve fame and fortune, either.

Yes; I have the kind of job that I could in theory spend all of my hours working on, since I am in academia. I think about history all day long. I don’t mind though; it’s just how my mind works at this point, and I don’t think it keeps me from relaxing or having fun.

I had hard time last year. I had to work 17/18 hours a day and that left me only time for personal needs and sleep. I worked this way for six months and 7 days a week. Then one day I fell off of my bed and I couldn’t help myself stand up; I resigned that job. I felt like I had no personal life then. I became more and more skinny, it took me much time to become normal again.

As far as sleep is concerned, I am a gifted sleeper. It takes about five minutes after I lie on bed to be asleep. My roommates stay up late; they don’t turn off lights until they want to sleep and some times they even play music/movies loud. But that doesn’t bother me from a sound sleep. Many of friends and relatives want to be a sleeper like me! If I can share this particular trait of mine with others, I would very much like to help needy!