[thesloppy]

My dimestore analysis of my own covid mental health struggles says that the first 3-6 months were largely characterized by anxiety & as time has progressed most/all of those issues & symptoms have evolved into depression. I also feel like that's mirroring most people's struggles these days, including lots of folks who have never dealt with those issues before & you can kind of feel that collective edge in the air. Anxiety is nothing to pine for, but at least there's a kind of nervous energy to it, whereas I think almost everybody is just exhausted, isolated, lonely, angry & entirely unmotivated by this point, all of which tends to spiral downward in the best of conditions, let alone in a pandemic that enforces those exact conditions on you.

It's a tough fucking slog these days & I feel everybody's struggle in here.