“I’ve been hard on myself lately,” I began. “I feel like I always have a long list of things I need to do, but I keep getting distracted doing useless things like watching TV or mindlessly scrolling through the internet. And at the end of each wasted day, I always ask myself, ‘What is wrong with you? Why are you like this?’ It’s like . . . this crippling cycle of guilt and disappointment, and it always ends in anger towards myself for not being better.”
