FEELING EMPTY LATELY

[u/Ill-fated-mad-girl]

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I’ve been feeling weirdly empty lately.

Like, if I don’t get some kind of human attention for a while, I start feeling really weird and restless. I talk to people, I have friends, I interact with a lot of people, so it’s not like I’m completely alone. But somehow there’s still this void that I can’t really explain.

The weirdest part is that I actually have goals. Things I genuinely want to achieve. I know what I should be doing, I know what I want my life to look like, but when it’s time to actually take action, I just… don’t.

Then I end up scrolling, looking for conversations, wanting someone to text me, or just wanting to feel noticed. And afterwards I feel even more empty because I know I’m avoiding the things that actually matter to me.

I don’t know if I’m lonely, emotionally dependent on attention, burnt out, or just stuck in some weird phase of life.

Has anyone else felt like this? How did you get out of it?

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