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Anonymous wrote:I also see the shrinking of life activities turning into hyper focus on those activities. I will hear about "that upcoming dentist appointment" for six weeks before, and the angst about it goes up the closer we get. I swear agoraphobia has set in and just leaving the house is stress-inducing.
I think I can be a little sympathetic to this during COVID. We are working from home and the kids are remote schooling and we're just not used to going out for necessary things as much as we used to be. Last week I had to take my DD to a dentist appt and the day of, to my surprise, I felt mildly anxious about it all day -- I kept doublechecking the address, whether i had the insurance card, and the time. It just seemed like a Big Deal to me, though I wouldn't have thought about it so much in my pre-covid life, I would have just done it. I was thinking WTF is wrong with me. This must be what it is like to age when you don't do as much -- the smaller things become much bigger deals.
This is why I want to keep working and staying active as long as possible. You don't really feel so much more relaxed with less to do, the little things you do just start expand to fill that space in your head.
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