If you don’t stay busy or in touch with your friends, you’ll just fall into a hole and post crazy shit online to get attention

Terry Pratchett had a good take on this in his book "Men at Arms". "Individuals aren't naturally paid-up members of the human race, except biologically. They need to be bounced around by the Brownian motion of society, which is a mechanism by which human beings constantly remind one another that they are...well...human beings."