Hey Deservant listeners, today I thought I would answer patron emails, let's get into it.

Anonymous uppertier patron writes, I live by myself and while in quarantine I have a limited amount of people that I see. My self-care activities are more social normally, spending time with friends going to dance classes, etc.

I feel more energized with others around me. My therapist says I should explore

activities that I can do at home alone since we are in a pandemic. No matter what

I try by myself I do not get the same amount of enjoyment as with others around and find these activities like taking bubble baths, watching movies, and even talking on the phone and Zoom,

I find these things to be boring and unfulfilling.

Can being too extroverted be problematic?

End of email.

Yes, there are downsides to being extroverted for sure, particularly during a lockdown.

But introverts need a social life too, so everyone is suffering, but particularly extroverts. And to act like there's a

solution to this is silly. There's no solution to a lack of human contact. It's like

saying how do I cope with the fact that I don't have any

water to drink or that I have a broken leg and I can't get to the hospital? There's no coping

with that. Putting in prisons, one of the prime ways of

torturing people, which is completely inhumane, is to isolate them from other

human beings, is to put them in the hole in a isolation cell where they have

no contact with other people and they're just fed food a few times a day through a slot.

People go insane.

Literally, they hallucinate, they have all sorts of mental illness problems,

even after just a few days.

We are social creatures. We all understand that when we leave a dog home alone with knowing to interact with for a few days or even just a few hours, they're going to have all sorts of symptoms.

Well, we're the same.

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