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6 Ways Going on Autopilot and Mental Illness are Connected

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I’ve been on autopilot for almost six months. Let’s talk about that. Wake-up, take meds, go to bathroom, brush teeth, sit on couch and watch TV — repeat x1000.

It happens to the best of us, regardless of any sort of condition. I suspect though that for those of us diagnosed with a mental illness, as I am, this is a common struggle.

This isn’t my first time here, but it might be my longest. I can definitively blame COVID-19 for some of it. The new societal norms of COVID likely triggered it for me, but as someone diagnosed with major depressive disorder and who has symptoms of anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), I pretty well place the blame on their shoulders for keeping it up for so long.

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