Especially given this context, maybe you can be upfront about your uncertainties with them?

This is exactly the type of thing I was reflecting on. Have you also found yourself having a lower tolerance for stressors?

Absolutely. It comes down to exposure therapy, basically. Reacclimation.

Yeah, I can tell that I get a little weird if I’m alone too long. And the time it takes is shorter since covid. I’m assuming from too much time alone during the peak period

I’m more referring to people who aren’t so much choosing to isolate. Not a preference, but a loss of the capacity or opportunities to socialize

now find it completely weird and disorienting to deal with people in public now.

This is what I’ve been hearing (and experienced). And that it’s not a preference, it’s more that the nervous system has struggled to recalibrate; or there was not enough opportunity for it to do so and that has led to a feedback loop

Yes some kids I know, it just sort of became how they identify: shy, more anxious

Maybe if we smushed the two together and made up a word? Like hikicovidomori

Ouch. Yeah

I’m glad to hear you live in a country where you can get more specialized support! I hope the new treatments pan out

Yeah it was certainly a net positive for some. Of course this post isn’t a criticism of those that enjoyed it, or were unaffected by it. But there is a sort of lost generation group, so to speak, too. That includes younger people who feel maladroit or disconnected in a way that they tie to that period. People who already struggled to socialize and the period made it worse enough that they never recovered

Read the headline, immediately checked if this was some the onion type of magazine

It’s a cross between our innate limitations, a societal system which works against us but continues from sheer momentum, and then by design by those who benefit. I don’t think most people woke up and decided to live apathetic lives. We are chronically cognitively tasked

I guess it’s time for a Family Ties sitcom reboot

Now this is a top tier showerthought

Gerrymandering is an art form in Texas

Read OP’s history. While they likely are suffering, they aren’t looking to change. Post after post, they just shoot down all the well-meaning attempts to help. Save your efforts

Thank you. That’s kind of you to follow up with us

Nah they just burned a lot calories

Sounds like it’d be faster than the nervous system could process pain?