As someone who ignored their feelings and eventually realized that I was miserable, it takes bravery to finally listen to yourself again. I think you’re doing the right thing. It’s hard to feel repressed feelings. Really hard. There were many times when I felt like I was barely treading water. Eventually it gets easier and I felt like myself again.

I went to a counselor and they told me that I had to unprogram myself. I had been telling myself things like “you’re not good enough”. I learned to tell myself positive things, even when I half didn’t believe them at first. Here’s some things that helped me to tell myself:

You’re fine the way you are. You belong in this world as much as anyone else. Your feelings are valid.

I gave myself permission to prioritize myself and my feelings and things improved. I’m not saying it’s okay to neglect others. Sometimes the best thing you can do to help others is to help yourself first. You can learn to trust yourself and love yourself again.

Not sure the term applies here. Enshittification is about companies making products worse on purpose for profit.

The real reason Reddit banned third party apps has finally come to fruition. I still miss rif is fun.