[RickS]

This is very compellingly written but I've found a lot of it not to be true for me. It is gray and rainy and a bummer outside most of the time, so frequent sights of that are like frequent sights of politics news. In my home office, I don't have much of a (detectable) background thread running for who could be at my office door, but opening the window and seeing people walking their dogs etc directly at the edge of my unfenced front yard absolutely causes that sense to flare up, even if they're all harmless and I recognize half of them.

Getting the room cozy and psychologically satisfying was a huge deal, and I"m really glad I did it, but the end result is much closer to horse blinders. I have ADHD, so distraction minimization is the name of the game.