Havent gone further than the end of the driveway in the last 2 years.
I try not to but there's these assholes at a car dealership who keep making me drive out there if i want to have an income
luckily my parents havent kicked me out yet so I dont gotta worry about that
I work full time and still live at home because California housing prices
I physically can't fucking leave because I started renting a third floor apartment when I was still able to move pretty well with long covid, and now I'm way worse and there's no elevator lol. Those stairs will wipe me out for days so yeah, I haven't left in maybe a year or two now. Maintaining the ability to walk to the toilet is higher on my priority list
i feel that, idk if its long covid or depression but I got a bit of that fatigue too but not as bad just tired all the time. worse than that though is the brain fog, feels like my brain just soft resets if I think too hard, and I cant form long term memories very well.
My brain is like that too. "Soft resets" is a good way to put it, it's like all my thoughts just drop and I have to wait 15 seconds for everything to unscramble before I can start thinking again. Please be gentle with yourself - I wish I was at the beginning. If you ever end up developing the variety of long covid I have (ME/CFS) you can actually make yourself much worse by pushing through fatigue, as the exertion causes more of your cells to shift into a damaged state. And it's hard to notice at first because you will just feel generically tired/flu-ish/physically sore like 24-72 hours after pushing yourself.
Yeah, it's not unheard of. Physics Girl has been completely immobilized and her story's decently public if you're cool with watching Smarter Every Day's video on it.
yall are making me sad. it's not your fault, you jsut are.
I had a while like that. Thought that if I wasn't working or consuming I had no reason to be outside. But I went on a walk once and quickly it became a daily activity. Now it seems incomprehensible to not leave the house for more than a day.
Same. Other than the store down the street and the gym, I very rarely ever leave the house. I have a work from home job, no social life, and I live in suburban hellscape with literally nothing interesting within a half hour drive. idk what do even do
I'm in hermit mode too, but not quite to such an extent
I had years in which I was very withdrawn and didnt interact with many people besides direct relatives. I kind of regret that. Mind you covid has played a roll in that.. but even without it I would have stayed inside a shit ton. These days I try to be more active in various ways.
I had years in which I was very withdrawn and didnt interact with many people besides direct relatives.
I've been doing this for about 15 years -- except I don't even interact with direct relatives
I generally only leave to go to work or buy groceries, or to take my dog out on a walk somewhere.
don't leave my house a ton anyway but depression got really bad like late summer of last year and I haven't left my house since then. I barely leave my room. Sort of recovering at this point, but still not at the point where I can leave yet.
With covid "leaving the house" pretty much means going to the store though so I'm not missing much. I used to take walks around my neighborhood but I live in the suburbs and I sort of hate being the older single male walking around the neighborhood with with all these little kids around and shit. Feels weird. Not to mention there are still people who live here from when I was a kid, like parents of peers my age. I see them looking at me and can just feel their disappointment in me, which of course also might be me projecting. Plus I also wear a mask when near other people and I increasingly get those angry suburban looks about it. I miss the days when I could just walk around the neighborhood in a mask and no one would give me a thought. I really need to move.
Felt the same way about going out when I still did. I am very shrek-like in appearance and it always made me feel like everyone was silently judging me.
Started the same for me honestly, now its gotten to the point where I havent talked to anyone irl in like a year because it gives me so much anxiey.
I only leave my home to go to uni, I found out today there's reconstruction in my neighborhood and 3 new stores I never saw before
