Does Your Self Worth Depend on Productivity? with Nathan Barry

So I ended up going from being, I think, one of the most, like, productive, prolific people around to really struggling to function, both from the pain, from the brain fog of, like, serious prescription painkillers. And I thought that in a couple weeks I'd get through that. What it ended up doing is, like, six months later, I still did not do much. I think I was probably on painkillers for about a month and, you know, gradually tapered off. And then I would sit down to work and get something done. And I, like, couldn't get words on the page, and I couldn't do these things. And the less productive I was, the more frustrated I got. What I learned after a lot of therapy later is that I tied my self worth to my ability to be productive. And so I ended up falling into a deep depression.