I'm starting to see people crash out a little bit over the last couple days so friendly advice from your Internet Stranger you should definitely trust to remember:
Post-Event Crash is Real. Any event you look forward to and get intensely emotional for in a positive way will have a comedown as you are drained.
This can happen quickly and immediately, or more gradually leaving you in a bad mood with a pessimistic despair the day after. This chemical process varies a bit but it's the same general idea whether we're talking about Blue Mondays coming off of E (so called because they skipped Sunday), SubDrop / Top Drop, or Post-Convention / Concert Crash.
Or in this case, what feels like an incredible series finale with no confirmation of what comes next but a lot of speculation and back and forth teasing from all sides.
Especially if you have ADHD, we have that busted dopamine regulator so our highs are higher but when we're empty we crash harder and completely empty. So three days at least after any event.
So this is my Internet Stranger Advice. Here is what we Know:
We just had a Truly Incredible Experience and we are coming down HARD.
The NEXT thing coming we do know. It will be a teaser or trailer for the documentary coming out before March and maybe release date. And there is plenty of hype and excitement about how great that is going to be. We don't know how many years of footage and story that has but they seem Excited about it. After the documentary (less than six months) who knows?
Until then we have so much new material and edits and gifs to make and fic to write and archiving to do and all that jazz.
But this week? We need to Stop.
A lot of us have holidays coming up.
Journal. Meditate if you do. Sit with your feelings and the present and don't drift to the future.
Be Kind to yourself. Reach out to friends and ask them to be kind to you if you need it.
Do whatever you need to do to refill your dopamine tanks.
If you're Northern Hemisphere make sure you're getting your sunshine or vitamin D
And Drink Water. Or tea. ESPECIALLY if you attended the last shows but even not. You would not believe how much the body uses water when under stress like this and dehydration, even mild dehydration, is the first thing to make you feel like shit and snowball.
Now go do what you need to do since you've put your hands in the life of a Rock and Roll band.