Sorry, I should throw in an intro but am not in the best place. I have an all right handle on my chronic depression, but social/general anxiety is a harder beast to battle. Had an incredibly exhausting day, drove about 5 hours with a family member in my car whom I previously cut out of my life, spent 6 hours in a house full of very loud people (so a family gathering which put certain stressful obligations on me). Mentally checked out not too long into the gathering but had to keep interacting. Different parts of family are completely disrespectful of many boundaries, however even if this was not the case, the 11 hours of 'social' time is wearing on me in that it insists on hanging out in the brain. Every detail. Every gross realization. Every piece of swallowed frustration over boundary exceeding. I am exhausted and need to sleep and like to daydream a bit about fantasy worlds as I fall asleep, but can't get all of the noise to quiet down enough to access these worlds. How do you deal with lingering thoughts? or put aside mental processing for later?
I use podcasts to help quiet my brain. Often an episode I've heard already so I don't need to stay awake to hear it all. Audiobooks might work similarly. Good luck.
