Originally Posted by Val
This is the point I've been trying to make. When you MUST do all these activities, and you MUST excel at them, you aren't doing them for healthy reasons, and you won't get the benefits that would get from doing things just because they interest you or are otherwise important for healthy reasons.

I was thrilled when I got to college that I no longer had to engage in any activities to bolster my resume. I was finally free to do *absolutely nothing at all*.

Plus, I was completely burnt out.

In hindsight, the solution wasn't to withdraw, sleep, eat pizza, and play computer games 20 hours a day. That really just made things worse.