An Introvert's Guide to Substack

How I traded thousands of followers for a handful of true connections

I have thousands of followers on Instagram. Videos that went viral. Comments that pour in daily. Yet for the longest time, I’ve felt completely alone.

Insta has become a place where people consume my pain. They scroll through my content about suicide loss, suicide survival, and the work of rebuilding a life. They look, they move on, they doomscroll to th…