I went AFK for most of last week to go help a friend out with some stuff, and I tell you what, I think that was really good for me. Partially the social activity, because although we were working on a thing it was very social, but a great deal of it was basically just being too busy to think about work at ALL, which was REALLY good for me.
I spent all my free time either knitting or reading fic (I read a Cap/Bucky thing called 4 Minute Window and if that’s your kind of ship, it’s VERY, VERY GOOD. I was about to say, it must be over a hundred thousand words, and then I thought, no, it’s gotta be WAY longer than that because it took me several days to read it all (albeit not all at once, because my time was not all free) and in fact it’s got a wordcount of around 220K, so, yeah), and sleeping, which was also good for me, even though it wasn’t egregious amounts of sleep.
Of course, now that I’m home again I’m heading right back into a spiral of “how the hell am I going to do enough,” but at least having a few days of being really divorced from that was nice, and good for me.