Alex Partridge

You know, I think so many people with all-DHD wake up and you're just completely dysregulated.

You wake up, you can feel that you're approaching burnout, you've had a really stressful, really overstimulating couple of days, and you feel that inability to focus, that brain fog, that irritability.

And I think we should really normalize having...

mental health days and advocating for yourself and taking that day off work and doing whatever it takes in that 24 hours to bring yourself back to a regulated space, spending time with yourself, taking a long walk, spending time with people that you really, really like.

Because if you don't, if you just work through that dysregulated space, if you force yourself to go to work or you force yourself to go to that thing you said yes to, then you're only going to crash into burnout and then you're going to need three or four days off to recover from that burnout.

So it's really beneficial for everyone when you are in that dysregulated space and you wake up and you feel like you just can't do today to advocate for yourself and just take that day off.

What would I do?

Gosh, I would probably spend a couple of hours on YouTube, probably play computer games, probably listen to music.

I'm a big Damien Rice fan.

Take my dog for a walk.

I'd probably have a takeaway.

I'd probably skip the gym.

Yeah, for some people it's absolutely great.

I think I'm lucky I live on the seafront.

I'll take my dog for a long walk, get that fresh air in my face.

I think it's so important to really connect with the natural earth.

So I'd go on the beach, feel those stones under my feet, maybe dip my toes in the water, and just spend time with my dog.

What would you do on a mental health day?

Yeah, it's amazing how many companies don't have taking a mental health day as part of their accommodation packages or don't see it as a necessary accommodation.

If you genuinely feel, and if you are all DHD, you'll know that feeling where you just don't have...