One thing to remember is that "their" world is your world too. If you pour a lot of time and effort every day into your plots, I'd call it natural that you're getting a bit affected by the ongoings in the world of RP. I've always considered RP to be of a very good quality if it can make you laugh and cry on the behalf of your character, but there of course needs to be a balance.Â
In my position as an FC leader, I end up getting stressed a lot, because I can't be in as many places as I want to be and also have fun all the time. And then when stuff starts going the route of conflict, of any sort, and I'm already stressed I sometimes have to slam the ooc breaks and take the conflict another day because my head can't handle it that day. Fortunately people around me have been very understanding with it.Â
There's a little bit of ourselves in all of the characters we make (All of my characters have autism, because I do and it bleeds through in my perception. They never mention it though, as I don't consider it to be a thing in Eorzea,), I also find that having more than one character (despite the alt hostility of FFXIV) can help lift some stress off your shoulders, especially if the stress is prone to trigger when you can't for whatever reason RP on your main. They might be trapped or ill or whatever, it does happen. This also goes a long way in honing your skills so that you can make diverse characters that are more and more not like you, which can in turn also help with the stress.Â
But in all of this the first step is to realize and recognize that there is something that, if left unchecked, could become a bad problem. I'm talking in the size of month long burnouts here. So give it a ponder and remember to take your mind off things, maybe by playing another game like The Sims or so. It's always nice and relaxing when you can drown people that mysteriously are called names of the people you don't like in a pool.. :p
In my position as an FC leader, I end up getting stressed a lot, because I can't be in as many places as I want to be and also have fun all the time. And then when stuff starts going the route of conflict, of any sort, and I'm already stressed I sometimes have to slam the ooc breaks and take the conflict another day because my head can't handle it that day. Fortunately people around me have been very understanding with it.Â
There's a little bit of ourselves in all of the characters we make (All of my characters have autism, because I do and it bleeds through in my perception. They never mention it though, as I don't consider it to be a thing in Eorzea,), I also find that having more than one character (despite the alt hostility of FFXIV) can help lift some stress off your shoulders, especially if the stress is prone to trigger when you can't for whatever reason RP on your main. They might be trapped or ill or whatever, it does happen. This also goes a long way in honing your skills so that you can make diverse characters that are more and more not like you, which can in turn also help with the stress.Â
But in all of this the first step is to realize and recognize that there is something that, if left unchecked, could become a bad problem. I'm talking in the size of month long burnouts here. So give it a ponder and remember to take your mind off things, maybe by playing another game like The Sims or so. It's always nice and relaxing when you can drown people that mysteriously are called names of the people you don't like in a pool.. :p
