Lately text-based communication has been really overwhelming and difficult for me. Keeping up with texts, emails, etc has made me feel really panicky and stressed. It’s essential to my work and relationships so I’m doing everything I can to relax about it; and I’m reducing my intake of things like Twitter (I have it blocked at a network level for most of the day every day now, which has really been helping me focus and redirect my brain) and trying to just respond in any way rather than wait for the “right”-feeling response. That’s a deeply-rooted anxiety for me, for various reasons.
In any case, I’m sorry to my friends who haven’t heard as much from me lately, or who have had to wait an obnoxiously-long time for replies both casual and important. I have not been in a good headspace, but I’m trying to improve it and not let you down.
And if you really need me in a time-sensitive way, please just call me. That’s easier somehow.