Seasonal Tension

A hand drawn chart that starts with Seasonal Tension/Anxiety. An arrow leads from it to the right pointing to the words Masking (trying harder), but it has a red X across it. An arrow from masking points to Burnout. Another arrow points from Seasonal Tension to Engage Monotropic Tunnel (let go of the rope)

I think maybe I wanted to note that I feel like I made it through this time, but the thing is, I didn’t take the monotropic tunnel. I thought it would be a lot of letting go of the rope, but I had tied that in my mind to playing a game. And when I lost interest in games, I flailed for a bit, trying to figure out what else I could sink into to try and ignore the tension, the anxiety, because that was my best plan for it; ignore it until it goes away.

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