Degredation
11 months ago
I just feel like I've done nothing but regress in all ways over time. Everything just feels like I'm getting worse and worse in every aspect. It's hard to write a single paragraph; two years ago I banged out a story every week. It's hard to engage with friends, people I've known for years, even if nothing bad had happened. I used to do DnD 4 times a week with people I barely knew, now I'm puking over stress doing it with people I've known half a year. I used to be able to aim in games and get consistent headshots, but now I'm lucky if I can hit a target more than short range.
I thought I've grown a lot. I thought I've been progressing and actually making progress. I just feel so... discouraged. And this isn't an out of nowhere feeling, this is something that's happened all year long. More typos, more misspeaking, more misunderstandings, more just... consistent failures. And this on top of a year of bullshit being thrown at me like it's a 20 to 1 dodgeball game, it's been disorientating to feel everything deteriorating around me like a falling building.
But hey. It's November 11th, 11/11. Lets make a wish to improve, even just a little. Even just decreasing a negative is still a positive. Maybe someday I'll be better. Maybe we can make it through this bitch of a year with a halfhearted smile at least.
I thought I've grown a lot. I thought I've been progressing and actually making progress. I just feel so... discouraged. And this isn't an out of nowhere feeling, this is something that's happened all year long. More typos, more misspeaking, more misunderstandings, more just... consistent failures. And this on top of a year of bullshit being thrown at me like it's a 20 to 1 dodgeball game, it's been disorientating to feel everything deteriorating around me like a falling building.
But hey. It's November 11th, 11/11. Lets make a wish to improve, even just a little. Even just decreasing a negative is still a positive. Maybe someday I'll be better. Maybe we can make it through this bitch of a year with a halfhearted smile at least.

Ralanr
~ralanr
Progress is not a straight line, nor is it a constant rise. It is falls, twists, and trips. You will get back up, you will keep going.

Monicar-Vix
~monicar-vix
OP
It's been nothing but a downward spiral for years on end. And even the few little upticks were rug pulls in the long run, where things go well then just get pulled away to make me fall further.

maadneet
~maadneet
That sounds a lot like autistic burnout/regression to me, especially on the time scale you're describing; both my partner and I went through (and to be honest, are still going through) a long period of it. Long periods of high stress will do it, and that describes the current situation fairly well... All I can say is that it's definitely not constant, and I have seen others get through it and recover their prior skills.