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I work at my job to eat, and pay off a car repair debt. That's it.
Given up on social life. People dont want me around. Im sick of being the tag-along. Given up on the teeth. Half of them are rotted to stumps, I dont have $50k to fix them. Given up on therapy. I dont have the income for $300 a session WITH public healthcare support, let alone without. Given up on sleep habits. If i get 2 hours and have to go to work, fuck it thats what I get.
I didn't care about exercise to begin with. Same with food, especially now I'm down to one meal a day from cooking fatigue.
It's ludicrous that they pushed us to the point where we really do have nothing, and are expected to be happy.
I prefer to manage social life digitally and via living with the people i want to talk to. I live with family right now, other times with friends, and it's nicer to be able to chat to people at home than go to meet them somewhere.
Even being in a social groupchat is pretty toxic (guess it depends on who with) because you end up checking over and over again throughout your free time to see whst people are saying. It became one of the worst parts of me. So i left it. People should schedule a time when they'll talk and meet instead of expecting you to show up and banter at random points throughout the day. Zoomers, i tell ya.