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So, I've been thinking about doing a post like this for a while. Not for sympathy or attention, but just as a way of trying to process it.6 months ago, I quit my full-time job. Since 2020, I had been doing GPBs and working full time. It was pretty full on, but I managed somehow. Dec 2024 hits, and I leave my work of 10 years (as a retail manager). I felt pretty confident that with the extra time and motivation, I could make GPBs a success. At first, everything was great! I felt happy, motivated, and creative (was around this time Sora and Co was created) However, fast forward 6 months later, and I've never felt more anxious, isolated, and frankly, alone. Gone was my daily dose of humans, replaced by me, myself, and my desk. In was the constant checking of social media and seeking validation from others. Not only that, but my money worries are starting to bend me (as with all self-employed people, I suppose) I'm at a point where I feel totally lost. I am unable to motivate myself to create new projects unless I force myself. Also, the constant barrage of failing metics and numbers depresses me daily. GPB's is falling into insignificance from my point of view. Yes, taking a break would be advisable mental health wise, but it doesn't fix my concerns that I'm lost and without direction or my worries of being left behind by the algorithms I depression as hit a point today where I can barely function beyond death scrolling. I know, tomorrow it'll be the same.I keep asking myself, "Did I already peak?"Why do people support this?" and "What's the point when it appears no one cares?"I dont have the answers, and it makes me feel worse. Sorry to complain, but this is how Im feeling. Again, this isn't me trying to play my villion. I just need to acknowledge to myself that Im in a bad place. Hopefully, the dawn will come soon. Thanks for reading (if you did)