[e9]

1. Kicked out my roommate and made an office. Didn't help.

2. It's very hard to do casual check-in with another person.I feel like I'm bothering them too much. I can't get over it. Too stressful. Was way easier in person. Just feel the room and interrupt as needed.

3. I wake up early, take my pre-workout or red bull or 5h energy but just stare at the screen for 4 hours between 8 and noon and can't start.

4. I love the product but I can't start working wihtout others around me.

5. I hired multiple therapists. They put me on meds. I took medical leave. Nothing helped.

For me, work is for work and home is for home or for "work on autopilot"

[wccrawford]

Our company has a daily meeting for the team. On paper, it's to talk about what we did yesterday and what we're doing today. And we do that. But we're allowed to take as much time beyond that as we like to socialize. We talk about tv, movies, games, sports, whatever.

Without this, I think I would be a lot worse off in this crisis, and I'm a pretty extreme introvert.

If I was in your situation and had to actually bug people to talk to them... Ugh. No way.

Have you asked others if they want to be on an 8 hr/day video call with you? Perhaps there are others that would prefer that, or would do it to help you.

I personally would not enjoy that, but if someone on my team needed it... I'd at least try to deal with it.

Alternatively, maybe you can find a few of them to do it for 2 hrs/day and take the edge off.

[e9]

Yeah I tried the constant live streaming thing. It helped for a bit.

[jedberg]

Not sure what your budget situation is, but what if you got a new roommate and then rented another small apartment nearby to be your "office"? It wouldn't solve the people around part, but at least you'd have an office to go to.

[e9]

So I tried to see if they let me work from wework or some other shared space but I work with some equipment that can’t be seen in public