zoom and netflix and twitter and whatever else have in some sense allowed us to partially plug into a crappy version of the matrix and it’s kinda better than nothing but i bet it’s driving everyone crazy in a million different ways
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i've been hesitant to talk about this for awhile. it's seemed like we're kinda pretending that things are more normal than they are and i didn't want to burst the bubble? appreciate the conversation i had about this with , helped me feel saner
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i've been playing around with the phrases "emotional anorexia" and "emotional scurvy" to describe what i was feeling in december
like i was starving myself of trace nutrients and the more i starved myself the less i wanted them
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the offer i made recently to RT requests for help etc. was not just for you guys, a lot of it was for me. i am starving for meaningful action right now and helping follows out is one of the more meaningful things i can do that i can see
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i've been wondering if sufficiently bad lockdown can convince deep unconscious parts of you that maybe other people don't really exist or the world doesn't really exist or things like that. sounds like some of the experiences y'all are reporting might be consistent with that
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twitter.com/Aryeh___/statu
I think this is an important piece of the puzzle. Being alone makes us more sensitive to rejection- brain rewires to avoid rejection by reinforcing isolation - isolation increases loneliness
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ooh can you say more about "people are way too real"?
one part of it is that the stakes can become insanely high when for example having a first conversation in a month with someone. a compliment comes with suffocating pressure, a joke has too many meanings, an awkward goodbye can feel like a relationship is ending
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