Everyone on LinkedIn just got a new job, a promotion, a Series B, and they're "humbled and excited." You're in week 11 of your search. The cognitive dissonance is brutal.
A simple reframing that helps a lot of people: Every LinkedIn post is a celebration filtered to look easy. Nobody posts "I cried in my car after the Stripe rejection." That doesn't mean nobody cried.
Tactically: Limit LinkedIn to 15 min/day, ideally not first thing in the morning and not the last thing at night. Unfollow (not unfriend) the 5 people who reliably make you feel worse. You don't owe anyone access to your nervous system. Replace scroll-time with one outreach DM per day to someone whose career you genuinely admire. Ask one specific question. Even if 4/5 don't reply, the active gesture beats the passive scroll every time.
The deeper move: LinkedIn shows you outcomes. Your career is built from process. They're not the same thing, and the comparison is structurally unfair.