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TL;DR: Can anyone relate to wanting to go back to the office due to WFH depression? I'm getting really nihilistic just sitting at home all day.
Like many others, I started working from home at the start of the pandemic. I currently work two gigs, one social media customer support role and another video editing job for a YouTuber. I've been doing these about 30 hours a week for two years and I *theoretically* should have nothing to complain about. I make really solid money, savings account is rising every week, and I do enjoy the benefits of working from home, as I'm a big music guy and I can listen to music while I work now.
However, over the past year I've slowly been developing depression, and I'm at an all time low now. I used to be really engaged in my hobbies, listening to music, making YouTube videos (I have my own channel) and I just really enjoyed life before the pandemic. But now I just feel kind of dead inside, I don't really feel much anymore. I kind of just look forward to going to bed each night so I can stop preoccupying my time with things, because it depresses me how unfulfilled I feel (doing things that I used to get a lot enjoyment out of, but now they feel like a chore).
Over the past two months, I've been putting a lot of effort into switching things up and incorporating a lot of the work from home mental health tips, like taking breaks and going for walks and disconnecting on my lunch break, etc. I've even been more active and have been taking vitamin D/multivitamins. But I'm not really noticing any change. I'm also putting effort into being social outside of work to fill that social desire - this week I went to two concerts with friends and got dinner with another.
But I'm still feeling super depressed and unfulfilled? I can't help but feel nihilistic sitting at home all day - like is that what life is about? Comparing my past fulfilled life and how I'm feeling now, the only thing that really changed was that I used to get out of the house every day - going to school and to work. Is getting an in person job the cure?
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