I've known many people without mental illness that will take a sick day of work for what they call "mental health day". Yeah, they lie and say they are running a fever or something, but their intent for taking it off is to recharge their mental batteries.

We with mental illness are not any different, except we need more recharging. Not less, more. So sitting and watching that movie is a little bit of time that you're not pushing yourself to the mental limit trying to be like those who are not ill. It's a bit of time to just chill and recharge your mental batteries for the next fight and therefore is actually self-care. You are taking care of yourself mentally by way of relaxing the mind.

No engine can run 24/7 without breaking down and the human mind is the same way. We need to chill and veg out if we want to push ourselves later on.