I struggle with this, too. I'll be feeling horrible and falling down a rabbit hole of mental misery, and then I realize I haven't left my apartment that day. When I do, it's like everything opens up. In the city there are so many smells, so many sounds, so many things to see. I do think that anguish is unused energy that has rotted within us. This a great guide to have!
Yes, there's an effect of just literally changing my environment from a very controlled, enclosed space to the outside world with various types of stimuli, whether it's a busy metropolitan area or a silent winter landscape. I'm glad you liked it!
"You started a new job and wow, this is harder than you expected and you’d really rather not go to that social event that you promised your friend you would drive her to, but then this one-time blow off turns into a series of blow offs until you find yourself posting about how great life is just staying in your bed all day but secretly you feel this heaviness in your stomach and a slight lump in your throat and something nags at you that your life is not what you were hoping it would be and you wish that you could make better connections and oh no the demons are back and wow we’ve really spiraled here"
- The single most elegant sentence in the internet right now lol.
I will be following the recovering couch potato guide this winter! Thank you for the perfect entertaining guide 🫡
Thank you! Winter is when the couch potato tendencies are strongest, so I wish you best of luck.
I struggle with this, too. I'll be feeling horrible and falling down a rabbit hole of mental misery, and then I realize I haven't left my apartment that day. When I do, it's like everything opens up. In the city there are so many smells, so many sounds, so many things to see. I do think that anguish is unused energy that has rotted within us. This a great guide to have!
Yes, there's an effect of just literally changing my environment from a very controlled, enclosed space to the outside world with various types of stimuli, whether it's a busy metropolitan area or a silent winter landscape. I'm glad you liked it!
"You started a new job and wow, this is harder than you expected and you’d really rather not go to that social event that you promised your friend you would drive her to, but then this one-time blow off turns into a series of blow offs until you find yourself posting about how great life is just staying in your bed all day but secretly you feel this heaviness in your stomach and a slight lump in your throat and something nags at you that your life is not what you were hoping it would be and you wish that you could make better connections and oh no the demons are back and wow we’ve really spiraled here"
- The single most elegant sentence in the internet right now lol.
Also, you must be really disappointed in Rachel.
Haha thank you! I would say that Rachel is a euphemistic name for all of my friends who are flakes. It's just a very common name for women my age!
Ahh, and here I thought only Karens had it hard