Hi everyone,
I’m currently dealing with severe autistic burnout and some really heavy, stressful family situations in my real life. My energy is at absolute zero, and I'm struggling a lot lately.
The issue is that an online friend group I’ve known for years has recently come back into my life. The last time we interacted, things ended badly. I recently joined a live stream with them, and immediately realized I don’t want this group in my life any more. I just want to move on and focus on my mental health and my family.
Because they know a bit about me (like my general location/city), my brain has gone into a massive overthinking and panic loop. They have been checking in on me about my family situation, but even though they are trying to be okay, I feel completely overwhelmed and trapped by the social pressure.
I’m too anxious to do a big action like blocking everyone or leaving the group chat because I’m scared of the confrontation, but I cannot stop ruminating on it and I feel like I'm losing it.
Has anyone else experienced this kind of digital panic while already in burnout? For now, I am just planning to go completely quiet and leave my phone in a drawer over the weekend to get space. Is just staying silent without blocking a good idea? How do I get my brain to stop treating this like an active danger?
Just really not good at all this stuff really struggle with anything social can barely communicate with a lot of my family let alone dealing with all this so any help at all is great.
Thank you so much.
