Agree with this. Just find one small thing to do. When you feel trapped, the idea of making big changes can feel impossible and overwhelming and you can get stuck in a loop that seems to bring you back to the same dead end every time you try and think of solutions. Especially when you feel isolated and disheartened.
Don’t put yourself under pressure to change everything at once OP. As the PP says, just do something small you’ll enjoy. I recognise that experience of introducing something small but new and it breaking the deadlock just a crack and giving a little bit of momentum and morale to try other changes when you’re in a bit of a rut. Sometimes you just need a breath of fresh air in your spirit!
Have you looked into OurParks sessions? There might be one at your local park – it’s a free regular workout session once a week. I’ve started going to the one near me (also being quite sick of being stuck in the house wfh with my partner 🙄😆), have really enjoyed the outdoor exercise, spending time with nice people (but in a very easy, low-pressure kind of environment – and with no obligation to chat if you don’t want to!)
Meetup can also be really good for just going along and chatting to people and getting a change of scene and conversation from your usual routine. Again, it’s the sort of thing you could go to once and then never see them again if you didn’t fancy it, so very low pressure and low stakes way to test the waters.
It’s all very well posters saying ‘well you just need to do x, y and z, why haven’t you done it yet’, but if you feel miserable and crap, it’s so much easier said than done. If you’re feeling buoyant anything can feel possible, whereas when you feel dejected and demoralised even the simplest things can feel really hard work. Sometimes it can also take many tries to get going in a new direction – like giving up smoking or leaving a relationship you’re not happy in, people tend to rehearse and consider the problem and make several attempts before taking decisive action. Posting on MN or whatever can invite that bit of extra outside push to shake you out of the sense of intertia. Especially when you’re feeling isolated and stuck.
Also definitely go and speak to your GP and explore if you may be feeling depressed. Isolation is so tough on your wellbeing and I think a lot of people have found this since the pandemic and wfh have shrunk lots of people’s worlds.
You had a life you loved before and you can have it again, I promise you! Go easy on yourself, and before putting yourself under pressure to change all these big things explore things that lift your spirits a bit.