Lying Flat #tangping

It's been close to 2 years since I was last admitted to hospital for mania (Dec 2019).

I've been at home doing fuck all and feeling bad about it - thoughts like 'I should rejoin the workforce' and 'I feel useless lying around at home all the time' would manifest, leaving me feeling suicidal at times.

But now I know there is a movement called #tangping or #lyingflat, and I don't feel so bad anymore. Increasingly, more and more people are rejecting the 996 (9am - 9pm, 6 days a week) working life, and are just coasting by day to day like I am. They work less and live within their means. I don't work at all. I feel bad that my husband is the only one supporting our young family. But my bipolar depression acts as a handicap sometimes, and it's hard to hold on to any job.

Suffice to say I'm glad #tangping exists, and I don't have to feel bad about wanting to stay at home without working. Perhaps I'll take the next step in tang ping and get a temp job for the money and heck of it.

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