I'm feeling overwhelmed right now

I've been feeling really overwhelmed lately. The broken arm on my desk chair remains unfixed. My bed remains unmade. A simple happy birthday message from my uncle remains unacknowledged. Each of these tasks is simple and only takes a minute, so why am I finding them to be so overwhelming? Let's look at some of the possible reasons why. WorkMy job feels like my biggest source of overwhelm right now. In the last couple of weeks, I picked up more tasks than I could handle and it ended up creating a bottleneck for the team. As a result, my team delivered significantly less work than normal. You see, both of the tasks I was supposed to complete were blocking everyone else. One of the tasks ended up taking significantly longer than it was supposed to for a variety of reasons, including me having been given the wrong information. The other task is more like 100 tiny tasks rolled into one: just lots of little tweaks to make to documents and details to check with someone who may respond…