kbk

The "half-assed gap-year-type-thing" is a legitimate choice and valuable and totally not to be unchosen purely on grounds that it is insufficiently sensible. Your mental health likewise is valuable in itself and not merely as part of the Protestant Work Ethic, (even though the latter appeals to me for the first time ever after David "call me Dave" Cameron dissed it from his cosy position of having enough money to do so). You could have an explore of worthwhile things nearer to home maybe that could be done in conjunction with psychotherapy as that way you can look at options properly and charity shops are utterly valid but sometimes there is too much Thinking Time. And also hiding from family could be legitimate reason to be far away because it is not wrong to want to hide from people and does not show hate or evil. She said trying to convince herself in shameless hijack of comment.