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It definitely takes deliberate balancing to do it in a way that doesn't lead to burnout. Its an incredibly common problem in these orgs because people are passionate and throw themselves in completely without stepping back and making sure it's healthy. I am working through this currently trying to delegate more things and guard more of my personal time for me and not political organizing.
for sure. i ran a community space for 8 years, and i had to quit because it became a bit of a political football and was attracting really unhinged people, both advocating for, and against us. i really could not tolerate it after about a year of that nonsense and it turned what was a fun positive place into a miserable one.
the most insane people were the one who had really no genuine interest in what we were doing, but just wanted to use as 'proof' of whatever weird conspiracy nonsense they believed. we were simultaneously 'corrupting the children', despite the fact no children were involve, BUT also we were 'not doing our duty by not helping the children' because we were an 18+ space. It was horrible. a lot of identity politics idiots got involved and accuses of being white supremacists, and then we were accused of pushing the queer bipoc agenda. one week we had this crazy young black woman harass us and then a week later it was some old white boomer lady...
we were just a makerspace/toolshare...
Some people just have broken brains man its wild. Sorry you had to deal with that.
there were some increasingly crazy people on the inside of that group. I didn't have the energy to fight a battle on multiple fronts. Crazy people have infinite energy.
I decided to shift gears and now I go out into the woods and fix up hiking trails, but even there we come across crazy people who try to place traps to hurt people. We have one parcel of land where someone is cutting trees so that they fall on people hiking. This person has been doing this for years and never been caught, but we have to keep going in and cutting down trees because of this psycho. Thankfully it's only one person in one place though and the trees and rocks and dirt don't flip out at you and most people who see us say thank you.