January 20, 2023

I went to a large queer meetup tonight at a Pgh bar I've been to a few times. In the past, I was pretty comfortable at such things as long as I knew at least 1-2 people, and I'd been looking forward to tonight, but I felt really overwhelmed and left after about 90 minutes with (what I presume was) a stress headache. I'm coming to recognize what a toll the isolation of the pandemic took on me, but I don't really know what to do about it beyond continuing to reacclimate myself to being in crowds.