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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Camel" data-source="post: 13339" data-attributes="member: 5378">Hi (I find it hard to use your online name, I hate to call anyone mad. You are definitely not mad!<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😊" title="Smiling face with smiling eyes    :blush:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60a.png" data-shortname=":blush:" />)I really understand your passion and the deep pleasure you get from using your hands and creativity. Compared to you I’m a novice, but I have found great solace in knitting at various times in my life. My late mother taught me to knit when I was 4 or 5, so there is also a deep emotional connection to the activity.I’m interested in how gendered our passions can be. As a man, knitting often gets you very negative comments. You have to do it in a private safe space. I wonder how many of us have to hide our passions for fear of being further ridiculed.From what you say, I feel that your identity and self esteem is closely connected to your passion for knitting. I can also identify with this. It’s important that we feel that we are good at something, particularly when we have had so many negative things said about us all our lives. It’s also very rewarding when we can give something we have made back to people who have shown us kindness and support when we need it.Be kind to yourself in burnout. Give yourself time. Keep knitting yourself back to health and wellbeing!<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😃" title="Grinning face with big eyes    :smiley:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f603.png" data-shortname=":smiley:" />Wade</blockquote>

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