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/adv/ — Anyone else feel like they never recovered from 2020?

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Anyone else feel like they never recovered from 2020?Anonymous06/15/26(Mon)08:08:37

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Ever since the pandemic started, I've felt different, and not in a good way. Before all of that happened, I felt more connected to life. I had interests, things I looked forward to, and I generally felt present in the moment.

Now it feels like I'm just existing. The pandemic ended years ago and life is supposed to be back to normal, but mentally it never feels like it fully came back for me. It's hard to explain. I just feel emotionally flat and sad compared to how I used to be.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm romanticizing the past, but I genuinely remember feeling happier and more hopeful before 2020. Since then, the years have kind of blurred together. Time passes faster, motivation is harder to find, and even things I used to enjoy don't hit the same way.

I've kept expecting that feeling to go away and for me to "snap back" to who I was before, but it never really happened.

Has anyone else experienced this? Did you eventually get past it, or did something fundamentally change after the pandemic?

Anonymous06/15/26(Mon)08:48:27

>>34626403 (OP)
A lot of people lost friends or had relationships deteriorate and found it difficult to rebuild them. Many also became depressed and have yet to recover from depression

Anonymous06/15/26(Mon)09:06:02

2020 killed any momentum i had regained after a desperate push to change from being a long term hiki in 2010 - 2017. I got to experience normalcy for a year or two before being put back into the hurtlocker once more. Shit killed everything to do with humanity.

Anonymous06/15/26(Mon)14:25:18

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>>34626403 (OP)
yesyesyes
I became way more 'antisocial' than I used to be... I barely leave home only for brief errands and I seldom go out with friends or family (in fact, i have not done so once this year)... I know I wasn't like this before
I feel a certain emptiness inside from staying home most of the time, but it doesn't really stop me from enjoying things like it does for many people here who say they can't enjoy anything at all... i mostly play video games and I do enjoy them
but I don't watch many movies or similar, and I think I stopped watching anime without realizing it..at the same time I found myself drawn to more somber stuff not really my usual self
i've noticed a loss of interest in things I used to like, I'm definitely one of those who felt the pandemic 'took a little piece of me'