I sleep if I can. I know that sounds really simple but it takes me so much time to actually fall asleep and when I do it's usually like three AM. If I can't I draw.

@Yokuutsu Browser games are the only games I can play because I don't have gaming devices, so that game recommendation works for me. Thanks! And yes to the music, listening to k-pop really helps me.

@Outline Naps do help me reset sometimes, but other times I wake up feeling worse, so it's the toss of a coin. I want to start drawing because art and creativity of all kinds really helps, but I don't know where to start.

I'm late to the party but what about photography?
You mentioned you take walks and taking a camera with you or even a phone and forcing yourself to take pictures will force you to look hard at your surroundings to find things to photograph and you're not thinking during that time.

Cooking/baking might help too.

Photography is absolutely a fantastic outlet. I used to be a street photographer and someone tried to sue me for taking a picture in a grocery store so I stopped.

I dont do street photography especially because the law here are pretty strict. I could get sued pretty easily for like posting somone's house on the Internet, or even worse, people, even if its their back, I could probably get away with festival pictures but even those I am a bit reluctant even though it is a grey zone. Performing artists is also difficult because it depends on their agency policy.
A grocery store would definitely be out of the question because it's considered a private property. Same goes for the inside of trains.

Basically the whole law around photography is way too complicated so I stick with easy and public buildings/places.

Kuuki wrote: ↑Jun 13th, '24, 03:08 I dont do street photography especially because the law here are pretty strict. I could get sued pretty easily for like posting somone's house on the Internet, or even worse, people, even if its their back, I could probably get away with festival pictures but even those I am a bit reluctant even though it is a grey zone. Performing artists is also difficult because it depends on their agency policy.
A grocery store would definitely be out of the question because it's considered a private property. Same goes for the inside of trains.

Basically the whole law around photography is way too complicated so I stick with easy and public buildings/places.

The laws in America won't let us take photos that compromises someone's expectational privacy. So like you said, we can't take pictures of random people or telephoto into someone's Livingroom, so I try so hard to not violate that. You can't take photos in a hospital of course, but I couldn't imagine lugging my camera and the equipment I'd need into a hospital anyway lol. Someone did try to sue me for taking a picture of a child in a public place but their lawyer told them that I had the constitutional right to take the photo because it was in a public space. I've done photos for local mental health associations at their events but I wanted to do art photography with models and the hobby just kind of slipped away from me.

Children is a grey zone too, technically it's not illegal, posting them on the Internet definitely is though, but I might get the police called on me. Definitely would if I was a man.
I'm not good at photographing people anyway though so at least there's that, I'll stick with people's back when I do take pictures. Less risks.

At least with models it's a lot clearer but also a lot harder to organize.
I hope you can somehow get back to it one day.

Posting them on the internet is not illegal where I'm from. Especially if the photo doesn't put the kid at risk in my state. I always ask if it's okay to photograph inside of a location before I start. When I photographed for the mental health association (whose name I can't recall for the life of me) I photographed many children. Sometimes you just have to read the room, but what I did was completely within the law.

It's not only for kids, it's for everyone. You can't post people on the Internet without their express permission.

They're a kind of a grey zone for events/scenes where people are lost in a mass of people but that's about it.

Kuuki wrote: ↑Jun 19th, '24, 05:34 It's not only for kids, it's for everyone. You can't post people on the Internet without their express permission.

They're a kind of a grey zone for events/scenes where people are lost in a mass of people but that's about it.

That's not true. Public photography doesn't require any permissive processes if you're in public, child or adult. It's a constitutional representation of our freedom of speech. If that were true we'd have basically no YouTube videos and none of the shorts people are making when they encounter people acting abusive to customer service people. National Geographic doesn't ask for permission to publish their work either.