[Serious]what do you get judged the most for by other people?

Depression, anxiety, insomnia and therefore finding it difficult to get a job. I live in a very wealthy area of extremely career minded people who I used to be one of and identified with. They tend to find it difficult to talk about anything beyond their careers and plans that involve huge expenses. Once you branch out beyond those topics or they learn of your unemployment, they often find excuses to end the conversation. All social energy must be used to indirectly brag or build out their "network".

I require no empathy or pity, just a normal conversation about something beyond your spin classes, your horrible job that chains you to your desk for 80+ hours a week that you are weirdly proud of, and your exotic vacations that end up being uninteresting because you do things to tick boxes to seem like an interesting person whose life and painfully fake personality are not killing them inside.

Career-aholics cannot fathom the idea of someone deciding they want to live an active, healthy and long life instead of living at a desk behind a screen as a wage slave, or a wage slave who oversees other wage slaves.

We are all at different places in our journey, but there are a lot of great lies about employment, consumerism, etc. to wake up to. Living well below your means, eating out of your own lush garden, working with your mind and your hands, and building meaningful relationships with people who live to truly experience life and appreciate beauty are all you need.

Sometimes depression and anxiety follow the realization that your whole life has been guided by useless values, but it heals as you realize there is far more to life.

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