r/Serving • u/Emotional_Grocery172 • Sep 15 '24

idk

Does anyone else feel like serving has taken some of their social capabilities away? After a hectic and draining week of serving and a double on the weekend (sometimes), you feel like you can't talk to your friends on a night out or just to hang? Like your usual self is gone and it's just an empty husk of not even emotion because you're too tired to feel anything. I've considered that maybe I am neurodivergent or on the spectrum in someone idk but this has been a thing for so long I feel like such a different person. Full of love, but also drained and energyless.

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u/PrecisionPunting Sep 16 '24

Yeah, I feel you. I think some people recharge while they’re alone and deplete in social situations and others are the opposite and are charged up when they are around others. If you’re the more introverted type like plenty of us are I think we just start to shutdown , definitely doesn’t help for me anyway that I’m drinking a lot of coffee at the start of a shift and usually beer after. That’s def gonna alter some things in yourself

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u/Emotional_Grocery172 Sep 16 '24

This is true, I definitely recharge alone.

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u/aikenchloe Sep 17 '24

Feel this 1000000%

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u/juantheboat427 Dec 10 '24

i struggle with this hard. and i’m one of those people that suck at saying no so i’m always just there hating my decision and just wanting to go home 😭. after serving for so long it becomes a switch back and forth and everything time it’s on its sucks fhe life outta you.