Hi!

I don’t officially have autism but I suspect I do. My sister is autistic.

I’m at a point in my life where I’m struggling with responsibilities. My goto coping mechanism is to be extremely passive and do nothing but watching YouTube video’s all day. Doing so, I feel worse and I think I need to find another way to “productively cope”.

Any tips or people feeling the same way?

  • TerdFerguson@lemmy.ca
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    9 days ago

    Whether or not autism plays any role here, this sounds like depression-related behaviour.

    YouTube videos all day will keep your dopamine reserves low. Best tip I can offer is to let yourself become bored instead and then use that feeling to propel you to do things away from your screens.