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View submission: People WITHOUT depression and anxiety, what is life like?
Jesus, you’re literally me. I quit Instagram for a month now and I’ve felt way better. I hated seeing my friends and acquaintances living fun lives while I suffered alone. I saw people posting about new cars, new apartments, new jobs and fun outings while here I am a total broke failure in life not deserving of anything.
Quitting social media helped me a lot.
Comment by Pussytrees at 28/08/2020 at 10:44 UTC
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I also quit social media for my anxiety depression. I’ve been going over a year strong. Honestly the hardest part is losing connection with so many people. A lot of people today(especially younger people) tend to use social media as their main way of keeping in touch with people and when you no longer show up on their feed they forget about you and you have to go out of your way to keep the connections that matter to you.
Comment by CetiCeltic at 28/08/2020 at 18:50 UTC
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Yup that's pretty much exactly it...I used to be a huge validation seeker because everything else in my life was so bad I was trying to get my positivity from online. But then it got worse and I'd see everyone doing "the same thing as me" and looked down on them and that just cycled. Not to mention having an abusive ex made me almost scared to post anything because he kept finding things out about me. Now I've come back to social media I don't really post. Only comment. And I only follow hobby groups and my best friends, which definitely helps.