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Regression vs. Adapting

arfie
arfie

It seems to me that even the psychotherapy echoes in my head have fallen silent on their insistance that isolation is a bad thing. My desire to leave the farm seems to have disappeared altogether. There is nothing *out there* for me. All the social distancing skills I learned as a child prostitute are proving to be a lifeline under marshal law. As Coronaville looks like an ever more permanent evolution, I believe I am finding contentment in the legally mandated isolation and ready to resist any suggestion that I regrow my faith in the psychotherapy logic that socialization is a good thing. I still cannot see humanity in the disenfranchised eyes floating over the masks. My mask phobia, both literal and figurative, has not budged a bit.


Am I adapting to the new normal, regressing to my pre-therapy self or simply falling into the psychotic abyss?

Thor2008
Thor2008
I think this is a new normal for now. I think all of these masks and screaming covid headlines will disappear in Nov after they have harvested all our votes. After that, the populace is not needed till the next time of choosing.

Will your faith in humanity be restored with the removal of the mask mandate?
Community LeaderMid
Mid
New normal...will change again.

You're doing the best that works for you.
arfie
arfie
Guess I don't really believe the mask mandate ever will be rescinded. Laws are much easier to make than to rescind.
Frogsoup
Frogsoup
I feel the same way about leaving. I have no motivation to ever leave again because there is nothing good out there. Why waste so much time getting better when there's nothing waiting at the end of the finish line? I mean I do have one small little thing that pushes me to get better but I'm not sure it's enough to actually get me through. Every now and then I have these days where I remember the good times of going out. The times where whatever happened outweighed the anxiety I was feeling. Those days can be promising so I hope you can have some of them soon too. These are pretty uncertain times and not many people have answers. I think we just have to float along and see what happens.
CanadianLady
CanadianLady
I remember when the positive of going out outweighed my anxiety too @frogsoup

Thank you for the nice reminder that is was and is possible :)
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