“Solitude matters, and for some people, it’s the air they breathe.”
― Susan Cain

I know which things are kryptonite to my HSP* Introvert temperament. I can list several:

• Large social gatherings
• Noisy, crowded places
• Making a lot of small talk
• Spending a large part of my day or evening socializing with not enough alone time
• Engaging in a lot of new experiences/activities
• Having a crowded schedule during the day with many demands on my time
• Spending a lot of time on social media
• Getting overstimulated by all of the above and becoming exhausted

So why do I forget all I know about what leads to a very unpleasant state of fatigue and feeling depressed, and engage in too much of the above list, then find myself suffering the previously mentioned consequences.

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*Highly sensitive person

Featured comic strip image of Adventure Comics via Joel Kramer on Flickr. Exhaustion GIF via Giphy.