I hope everyone’s having an okay day! I’ve (26f) posted once before and a lot of this is new as I’ve just recently gotten my diagnosis and it’s been a process of putting a lot of pieces together that I thought were normal but, turns out have mostly been symptoms. 

One giant one being my relationship I’ve had with social media. I didn’t have a cellphone or social media until about 17-18, my mom was born in the 50s so we kept things pretty old school. I am very emotionally affected by most things I see on TikTok or Instagram reels where I’ll either allow it to absolutely crush means it puts me in a bad place, or I will (this is so embarrassing) get annoyed I’m not able to be friends with someone I follow that has a higher following. Not for the reason of clout but just because I like the person a lot. 

I find myself having to take breaks from social media quite often, a break will last a month and then I’ll last a week or so and feel the emotional affects of not having enough or being like the things I see. I also just find it causes me to be so unproductive all the time where I’ll just be opening and closing apps over and over hardly even looking at them anymore. But alas I’m so nervous that I’ll feel disconnected and miss out but I’m so close to just getting a flip phone and just stopping. Anyone else experiencing this?