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As I sit here trying desperately to focus on one topic long enough to unpack, I am growing increasingly anxious. There is so much noise swirling around in my head that it’s hard to concentrate. It’s so like me want to plunder the innermost depths of my psyche looking for answers, but a faint voice inside stops me, and I breathe… long, slow, deep breaths, until I realize that what I may be experiencing is simply a bad case of TMI.
The past few weeks have been so non-stop busy that I have created a backlog of unprocessed information, and it’s clogging me up! So, I decided to consult Dr. Google and learned that I am indeed suffering from information overload, thanks to this article on Mindful Health Solutions, "4 Ways Information Overload Impacts Our Mental Health and How To Cope."
“The overwhelming need to process every piece of information and the inability to do so can create an unstable mental state.” CHECK! “The constant noise created by information overload has a collective effect on our minds, developing both anxiety and confusion.” CHECK!
In his post on WORKZONE, author Andrew McDermott tells us, “Most people don’t recognize the signals, symptoms and signs of information overload.
They suffer in silence, believing that there’s something wrong with them. That they’re less capable than their peers. Professionals struggling with information overload are typically ambitious, highly driven people who:
Feel they’re at the end of their rope
Have trouble sleeping
Are anxious, irritable and unfocused
Feel stressed out
Are overwhelmed by life
But worry not, the title of McDermott’s post says it all: Information Overload Is Crushing You. Here are 11 Secrets That Will Help. So, check it out if you can relate.
If 11 secrets are TMI, check out Mindful Health Solutions’ 4 Ways To Cope with Information Overload
And for a different perspective, I’ll leave you to process these words by author, Clay Shirky, Vice Provost for AI and Technology in Education at NYU…
“It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.”