my emotional crutches

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emma chamberlain

Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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i've recently hit a rough patch in my life, and this one feels different. unlike past struggles with depression, anxiety, or burnout, this time, i'm just grumpy. my fuse is short, and my willpower is nonexistent. it took me a minute to figure out what it was, but once i did, everything made sense. i'm grumpy because as of recently, i've eliminated almost all of my emotional crutches in life. what i used to use to soothe me is gone. so today we're going to be talking about emotional crutches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I recently found myself in a rough patch. Okay? I've been going through it a little bit.
0:07.0	The last month has been a real challenge. Now, this is not unusual for me, right? I'm in my
0:14.3	20s. I'm a sensitive person. Honestly, I'm going through a rough patch more often than I'm not. And that's okay. That's just who I am
0:24.2	and the phase of life that I'm in. It's all good. This is nothing out of the ordinary, right?
0:31.2	Wrong. My most recent rough patch has looked very different to my rough patches of the past. This most recent
0:41.6	struggle has been sort of unusual. Instead of falling into a state of depression or anxiety or
0:46.9	panic or burnout, I'm just grumpy. And I know what you're thinking. Emma, being grumpy is not
0:53.9	that big of a deal. Like we all get grumpy sometimes. No. Okay. What's so upsetting about it is that it's so out of character. I'm normally an incredibly patient person. But recently, I have a dangerously short fuse. I'm normally a disciplined person.
1:13.3	You know, I get my shit done and I don't complain about it.
1:16.8	But recently, I have almost no willpower to do anything in any category of my life.
1:22.6	I'm normally a really gentle person.
1:25.2	But recently, I've been uncharacteristically harsh.
1:29.3	Like, and, okay, not with like random strangers. I have maintained a sense of humanity when it
1:37.4	comes to people I don't really know. But when it comes to people I'm close to, I have no patience.
1:44.0	I'm harsh. I keep catching myself
1:46.3	being harsh and I have to walk myself back and be like, oh my God, I'm so sorry. I don't know
1:50.6	what that was. Like for the last few years, since I've become an adult, I've been a pretty
1:56.3	even-tempered sort of person. Like I definitely have my moments, right? But I don't know.
2:02.8	Like, I just have made it sort of a priority to be pleasant and patient with everyone.
2:08.8	And recently, all of that has gone out the window. And I have no patience. I have no willpower.
2:21.7	I have no softness. Like, I don't know. Something weird happened.
2:30.6	I'm so fucking grumpy. Now, this didn't just happen out of nowhere. This isn't like a completely random personality shift. It's not like I just woke up one day randomly and for no
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