Sharing Saturday has been moved to Thursdays. Welcome to the first installment.
One of the symptoms of my depression is a longing to disappear. Not disappear in a gruesome, permanent sense but rather a desire to become virtually invisible. A hermit if you will. Not having to interact with others, on some days, is the greatest gift I can give myself (and probably everyone else as well). It’s why, for a few months now, I’ve not been a great blogging friend.
It’s been exceptionally hard for me to muster the energy to read and comment and tweet and do all the other activities I like to do for other bloggers. I don’t feel that I have anything valuable to contribute to their posts (and I refuse to leave comment vomit) and most days, when I open up my Google Reader, the sheer volume of posts to read sends me into an anxiety attack and I just declare feed bankruptcy and tell myself I’ll get better tomorrow. Not only that, there are so many great, insightful bloggers out there and I find it hard to keep up (or even produce content that’s in the same class). So, to prevent my depression from getting worse, I do what I do best: avoid.
Avoiding is my go-to tactic, particularly when I’m in the midst of a really bad cycle. Avoiding makes me feel invisible which, ultimately, is the goal. Although I keep writing, which I do because it’s an outlet, I just can’t bring myself to do everything else in the capacity I know I need to. It’s too hard. So to those of you who have been commenting, sharing, and otherwise engaging with me–thank you. I’m working really hard to get better about reciprocating.
As a sort of peace offering, I do want to share a few posts I’ve read this past week and have thoroughly enjoyed:
- You Know You’re Obsessed with Personal Finance Blogging When…on From Shopping To Saving.
- 26 Reasons to Keep Money In Savings on Fiscal Fizzle
- Creflo Dollar, Joel Osteen and the Prosperity Principle on Married with Debt
- Snowballing Debt Is Illogical on My Alternative Life
- Finding Peace with Money on MomVesting
And lastly, I’d like to thank Andrea from So Over Debt for bringing to light a very serious problem and telling us that Apostrophe Abuse Prevention: It Starts With You
I’ve also been doing some guest posting on various sites. I don’t think I’ve done a good job of sharing those posts here but if you check out my Guest Posts page, you’ll find links to all the guest posts I’ve done.
So that’s it. This is my olive branch. I’m hoping to make this a regular Thursday feature instead of a Saturday one, and I promise that even if I’m not commenting and tweeting, I am reading. Thank you all for being patient with me. I’m on crazy people pills now so hopefully we’ll start seeing some progress soon and I’ll de-hermit myself.
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Hey thanks for mentioning me. I wouldn’t worry too much about being overwhelmed with blogging, it happens to me all of the time! Especially the thing you said about opening up the reader and seeing SO many posts waiting to be read, some days I just mark all as read and close the browser.
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I appreciate the link very much. Thanks!
Sometimes I disappear from blog world for a few days just to recharge my batteries. You can always declare a google reader bankruptcy like I did and just click it all Read!
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Thanks for the mention. Don’t worry, you are so awesome that we don’t hold it against you. I’ve been in hermit mode for about a week and my feed reader was looking evil, too. I declared bankruptcy a few times.
John | Married With Debt recently posted…Debt Payoff Progress – May
I’m a hermit by nature, so I relate. When I get overwhelmed, I hermit even more. So there are weeks at a time where my extended family neither hears from me nor sees me. Thank god they all understand!
I think the majority of the blogging community will understand your hermit need. Glad you’re feeling better!
Thanks for the link 🙂
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I don’t think there’s anything wrong with escaping. Luckily, in the internet, I’ve found nobody notices much. There are days when I feel like it would suck the life right out of me to post another comment…so I don’t. Sometimes I wonder why some people seem to gain energy from being social and for me it costs energy. I get jealous.
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So this a timely post because two nights ago I was making a mad exit from everything. I was stepping down from my leadership position in my MOMs group that I just accepted, dropping our of my Summer study, closing my facebook/twitter account and ending my blog and disappearing for a while! I was so serious and then I was able to get a “good” night of sleep and some perspective. Depression is a bitch. Always remember you are not alone.
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I wouldn’t feel pressured to comment on every single post or even read every post every day. If something comes up life goes on and missing reading a post or leaving a comment isn’t going to hurt or offend anyone. One fellow blogger recently said they hope people have still been visiting his blog even though he hasn’t had time to comment lately and I definitely still do because I understand life gets busy. Hopefully this has helped but I definitely wouldn’t pressure myself to do everything everyday when there really are a ton of awesome blogs out there.
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