Thank you, and noted. I’m going to make a point of visiting a few ranges in the area - and maybe while visiting family for the holidays (they live in more gun country) - before purchasing. I.do intend to make a regular practice.of it; I haven’t done it in ages, but I’ve done some shooting before and found it meditative

I’m appreciating all the time you are taking to answer, thank you. It’s all registering with me. I hope this serves others, too. Responses like yours are the building blocks of a healthy fedi community

I’d definitely stick to buying new, just to get rid of some variables. Is .45 the default ammo — but better not to buy in the beginning?

Thank you. I’ll check out the gentleman you mentioned in YouTube. I thought about going to a local shooting range. Didn’t think about shooting club. Shopping for anything is such a process now, huh?

A friend showed me a Cz sp01 9mm. I remember liking the feel of it. But it’s @ 1,500. That’s a fair chunk of change for me. Not sure what the budget is for a good piece? And elsewhere in this thread it sounded like a 9mm might not be the way to go, anyhow

Where does one go to start learning what to buy?

That’s pretty good, actually

Were you in any particular transition during that period? Like high school to college or 20s to 30s? I wonder if that worsened the impact for people, if the social isolation happened to time with important life transitions

Especially given this context, maybe you can be upfront about your uncertainties with them?

This is exactly the type of thing I was reflecting on. Have you also found yourself having a lower tolerance for stressors?

Absolutely. It comes down to exposure therapy, basically. Reacclimation.

Yeah, I can tell that I get a little weird if I’m alone too long. And the time it takes is shorter since covid. I’m assuming from too much time alone during the peak period

I’m more referring to people who aren’t so much choosing to isolate. Not a preference, but a loss of the capacity or opportunities to socialize

now find it completely weird and disorienting to deal with people in public now.

This is what I’ve been hearing (and experienced). And that it’s not a preference, it’s more that the nervous system has struggled to recalibrate; or there was not enough opportunity for it to do so and that has led to a feedback loop

Yes some kids I know, it just sort of became how they identify: shy, more anxious

Maybe if we smushed the two together and made up a word? Like hikicovidomori

Ouch. Yeah

I’m glad to hear you live in a country where you can get more specialized support! I hope the new treatments pan out

Yeah it was certainly a net positive for some. Of course this post isn’t a criticism of those that enjoyed it, or were unaffected by it. But there is a sort of lost generation group, so to speak, too. That includes younger people who feel maladroit or disconnected in a way that they tie to that period. People who already struggled to socialize and the period made it worse enough that they never recovered

Read the headline, immediately checked if this was some the onion type of magazine

It’s a cross between our innate limitations, a societal system which works against us but continues from sheer momentum, and then by design by those who benefit. I don’t think most people woke up and decided to live apathetic lives. We are chronically cognitively tasked