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mentally exhausted interacting with other people

☕Tassimo ☕

Hey, Auti-nauts. I've not posted for a while. I can't remember if I've ever started a thread on here. Please be gentle! I wanted to ask you all a serious question. Does anyone else gets mentally exhausted interacting with other people? 

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  • Yep. I do what I have to do to get through my work day, but then stop interacting as soon as I can afterwards.

    I can easily switch off in a conversation and then it becomes difficult to continue without starting to feel a bit frustrated and wanting to be somewhere else. The worst for me is WhatsApp groups - I can't stay engaged for months on end having random messages / chats. I had to say to friends that I couldn't keep replying, but I don't think they understand why and it's too hard to explain.

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  • Yep. I do what I have to do to get through my work day, but then stop interacting as soon as I can afterwards.

    I can easily switch off in a conversation and then it becomes difficult to continue without starting to feel a bit frustrated and wanting to be somewhere else. The worst for me is WhatsApp groups - I can't stay engaged for months on end having random messages / chats. I had to say to friends that I couldn't keep replying, but I don't think they understand why and it's too hard to explain.

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  • in reply to StayingAnon

    I have the same experience with messaging.

  • in reply to StayingAnon

    I ghost people all of the time because I cannot keep up with responding to messages. I don’t mean to and I feel absolutely awful and guilty for doing so. It takes so much energy and concentration and reviewing to make sure I have written an appropriate response. Normally I ask my mum or dad to word the message for me. If I happen to receive notifications for more than one message in a close time frame I cannot cope with it and I do nothing. Sometimes this lasts for months. My friends are so kind to me about it but I know they can’t understand why this is the case for me and I know how stressful it is to not receive a reply so it must be an awful experience for them too. I wish this wasn’t the case but I still struggle with this everyday.