Focusing on the book has helped, too. "Oh look, here's this fun little world I can control!" And obvs I'm not doomscrolling across media channels. But big stories do get through. As they should! I just have to be extremely aware of keeping my focus on what's in front of me.

If my mental breakdown during the Plague Years taught me anything, it's that I have an extremely finite amount of resilience these days, and that has to be managed diligently, or I'm out. And life is too short to nope out again. So: onward. And beta blockers 🤪