Today, I decided that after three days, I had to cut short my hiatus from social media. I saw a correlation between that and my anxiety going through the roof, causing my work performance to suffer. I’m so addicted to social media that in my off time, I think I was having withdrawal symptoms. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, Facebook stopped working and I realized how emotionally dependent I am on social media. FML
Today, my social anxiety got so bad that I'm now afraid to add people on Facebook. FML
Today, I realized I've been sinking into a deep depression, ignoring all my friends, and don't know what to do with my life anymore. This is all because I gave up Facebook for lent. FML
Today, I spent an hour deleting 70 of my status posts from the past week so I don't look so addicted to Facebook. Damn, I need a life. FML
Today, I realised how badly the pandemic aggravated my social anxiety when I was playing an online game and an ally kept on getting too close to me throughout the match. I actually had to quit the game and take my emergency meds so I wouldn't go into a full blown crisis. FML
Today, I'm exhausted. My antidepressants ran out, making me overreact to everything. My friends dragged me into really childish drama, resulting in me ditching them. Then my work laptop broke on the most important day of my project. Then I got my first break from work in about a year… and woke up with COVID. FML
Today, I (Male, 37) realized how peaceful my life was without social media involved. Why did I not do this before, back when I was in high school at the age of 17 by saving myself the anger and stress of toxic social media users? Looks like I'll never get those 20 years of my life back. FML
Today, I realized that I needed a new job when I had to take anti-anxiety medication before meeting with my boss. Last time we met, I had a panic attack. FML
Today, I realised that my social anxiety, fear of people's judgment, social isolation, you name it, have got so bad that I literally have no interests. It got to such a point that I even have nothing to search up in the internet, so I just stare at an empty browser page wondering what should I do with my life. FML
Today, after I was feeling overwhelmed and in the middle of a big burnout thanks to my job, my doctor told me to use anxiolytics for only three days. In those three days I lost focus, I was sleepy all the time, and I made some big mistakes, so in the end I got fired. FML
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Top comments
RichardPencil 32
People’s filtered, curated representations of their lives are certainly more pleasant and exciting than reality. Isn’t that the draw of drugs and alcohol?
Henry8cooper 15
Social media is the right place to share confessions like that 😂 Do not - I repeat - do not talk to a living, breathing and, not to forget, fysically present human being around you 😂
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Henry8cooper 15
Social media is the right place to share confessions like that 😂 Do not - I repeat - do not talk to a living, breathing and, not to forget, fysically present human being around you 😂
RichardPencil 32
People’s filtered, curated representations of their lives are certainly more pleasant and exciting than reality. Isn’t that the draw of drugs and alcohol?
Inkoseh 33
Sure is, and when it's been your routine to do every day for the past 10 years, it's a hard quit.
BurnInDemonFire 39
Welcome back. In the past three days, you've missed; The Donald confusing Daytona with Toledo, 30-50 feral hogs, Half of Twitter turning on Neil Degrasse Tyson, and the MAGA nuts agreeing with Chief Nut that video games are responsible for mass shootings. There. You're up to date. Have fun!