I was masking all my life so was at burn out constantly, always feeling low and tired. I thought I was depressed. So now I take time to recharge, don't mask as much, sleep when I need to and feel much better. All my relationships have improved as has work.
This makes me happy. I’ve no idea if I mask, I’m still learning, but I know I’m constantly excessively exhausted
Hopefully you get to grips with it to the point you know how best to manage yourself. I'm still learning every day
I think I benefit greatly from not actually having to mask 99% of the time since I’m a business of 1, and do most comms via email. Don’t have to mask around my wife, so it’s essentially very rare social occasions where I can manage ok for a few hours (though I’ll eventually disappear into my phone)
Not sure I could manage masking all the time at all. That would be so draining to have to deal with