For real? Taking care of my mental health. I was in a very bad spot of my life earlier this year. I lost my best friend who also happened to be my business partner, he died in March.
It was a shock, we both founded a small NPO together, he was behind all the strategy, I was more into communication. We thought he would recover from his cancer, but he caught covid while his immune system was at its weakest. He lost that battle.
I immediately tried to find my next professional step, insisting that I had to find a way to promote social economy locally, as that’s what we wanted to do together.
All this pressure on myself by myself, plus the state of the world, neverending flow of bad news, me losing faith in mostly everything and becoming extra cynical, I ended up flirting with a major burnout.
Fortunately, I asked for help when it was still time to act, and the reddit api scandal happened at about the same time. Leaving reddit was one of the first step towards recovery. All the subreddits were basically optimized for doomscrolling, which was super toxic for the state of mind I was in.
I just started to use lemmy last week since I found that Sync for Lemmy was available. And I only subscribed to things that aren’t too toxic. I’m now on medication to avoid depression. It’s been 3 weeks and it’s already much better.
I don’t think I’ll be browsing Lemmy as much as I was browsing reddit.
I’m sorry about your friend, and I’m glad you’re finding a way to deal with the grief and the shock. It never goes away, but you learn to manage it, and you learn how to live with it, and that makes it easier eventually. You’ll navigate your way through this, I’m sure.
For real? Taking care of my mental health. I was in a very bad spot of my life earlier this year. I lost my best friend who also happened to be my business partner, he died in March.
It was a shock, we both founded a small NPO together, he was behind all the strategy, I was more into communication. We thought he would recover from his cancer, but he caught covid while his immune system was at its weakest. He lost that battle.
I immediately tried to find my next professional step, insisting that I had to find a way to promote social economy locally, as that’s what we wanted to do together.
All this pressure on myself by myself, plus the state of the world, neverending flow of bad news, me losing faith in mostly everything and becoming extra cynical, I ended up flirting with a major burnout.
Fortunately, I asked for help when it was still time to act, and the reddit api scandal happened at about the same time. Leaving reddit was one of the first step towards recovery. All the subreddits were basically optimized for doomscrolling, which was super toxic for the state of mind I was in.
I just started to use lemmy last week since I found that Sync for Lemmy was available. And I only subscribed to things that aren’t too toxic. I’m now on medication to avoid depression. It’s been 3 weeks and it’s already much better.
I don’t think I’ll be browsing Lemmy as much as I was browsing reddit.
I’m sorry about your friend, and I’m glad you’re finding a way to deal with the grief and the shock. It never goes away, but you learn to manage it, and you learn how to live with it, and that makes it easier eventually. You’ll navigate your way through this, I’m sure.
I’m sorry to hear about your loss. Losing a close friend is awful, especially when it’s stacked on top of other things.