Overwhelm

is apparently a thing. A phenomenon, noun not verb. The Guardian is doing a series of pieces about it, like "how I beat overwhelm using meditation" or "how I beat overwhelm by stopping doomscrolling" or "how I beat overwhelm by eating pickled onions". Okay maybe not the last one.

We went to John Lewis in Kingston and I felt overwhelmed. It’s a big place. Oh and the toilets weren’t very clean, surprisingly. But I coped. With the overwhelm, and the toilets.

Actually it was a nice trip out with R and TSM. And in the evening Strider dropped by for beer, food and conversation. Pie and mash. Now that is a good way of dealing with overwhelm …