Are there any areas you are overcompensating on?

A pattern I notice is that we tend to overcompensate in areas we feel a sense of scarcity or insecurity and overcompensate in unhealthy doses.
Today's quest is to become aware if there are any areas in our life we are overcompensating on.

A couple of months ago, I became aware that I was unknowingly stretching my personal time as much as I could by having little sleep. I felt the lack of alone time and overcompensated by taking it to an extreme by maximising my day, resulting in little sleep. This went on for about 2 years, did I then had a moment of awareness about it. We all know what negative effect little sleep can have on our health in the long run.

I have always valued personal time very much. When work and family responsibilities started adding up these 2 years, filling most of my waking hours, the inner rebel within me did not want to give up my personal time. I felt I was very much living for others (although I made those choices) and not very much for myself, so I would wake up early no matter what time I slept to spend some quiet alone time by myself and go to bed as late as my energy could push to spend more quiet alone time.

The short 4-5 hours of sleep eventually took a toll on the quality of my days, and at that point, I still couldn't figure out why I was always tired. A few months back, when I accepted my limitations, I began seeing how I was overcompensating for my personal time by stretching days till I had no more energy left within me.

After seeing that, I clearly felt that time was scarce, so I tried my best to stretch my time in every possible way, even if it was unhealthy. I also became calculative with my time, not wanting to share more time with others than planned. I need to learn how to create time-spaciousness to share my time from a place of love and spontaneity. I reevaluated what I should do less to free up time for the important things I value in life and appreciate my health and body, which is to have enough sleep and the solitude that I wish.

Ever since that awareness that I was overcompensating for my solitude, I could make a healthier change and feel more balanced and abundant in my time by accepting my limitations. I had to choose what to focus on in a day and what I value, and reduce or remove those that could be reduced/removed.

We usually overcompensate in an unhealthy and imbalanced manner for things we lack. It could also be in food, a person being on a diet and not eating enough, then overeats for dinner because he or she is so hungry.

What area do you find yourself overcompensating for or feeling scarcity in?