Justmehere
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This thread is about coping only, not political or virology debates.
Along with millions of people, I am feeling a sense of anxious anticipation about the rising covid counts and lockdowns in my country.
The hardest thing is living alone. Right now I have a decent amount of human contact but in about a month, I’ll be fairly locked down and alone from Nov to probably March. I’ll be stay at home job hunting and etc. Plenty to do. That’s not the issue,
I’m worried about the mental health toll of such isolation. Humans are built for human contact. It seems like I’ve cracked a bit this year and I have noticed I feel so much more mentally healthy when at work on a good team. My job ends in a month and I have no real significant family contact.
I plan to engage a lot of online connections and try to connect with friends and keep making new ones somehow and take it a day at a time.
The anticipation is it’s own battle though. I’m happiest when helping people at work. I have a limit of how much I can handle because of PTSD, but when I’m under rhat limit, I’m this person that comes across “like a rock” - that’s how co workers describe me. I think I am really desperate for people, familysomething.
I have no one really that is family or even a life partner. Probably never will. I am just too cracked for too long.
The lockdowns make it so much harder to cope with that reality. I had peop in my life almost like family but like family they busted so many boundaries I started to crack and distanced and it’s not a returnable situation. They at least were a connection in the last lockdown.
Now it’s soon to be my dog and I and a fight to mentally and financially survive without the human connections that help my brain.
Then add in the holiday season.,,
Along with millions of people, I am feeling a sense of anxious anticipation about the rising covid counts and lockdowns in my country.
The hardest thing is living alone. Right now I have a decent amount of human contact but in about a month, I’ll be fairly locked down and alone from Nov to probably March. I’ll be stay at home job hunting and etc. Plenty to do. That’s not the issue,
I’m worried about the mental health toll of such isolation. Humans are built for human contact. It seems like I’ve cracked a bit this year and I have noticed I feel so much more mentally healthy when at work on a good team. My job ends in a month and I have no real significant family contact.
I plan to engage a lot of online connections and try to connect with friends and keep making new ones somehow and take it a day at a time.
The anticipation is it’s own battle though. I’m happiest when helping people at work. I have a limit of how much I can handle because of PTSD, but when I’m under rhat limit, I’m this person that comes across “like a rock” - that’s how co workers describe me. I think I am really desperate for people, familysomething.
I have no one really that is family or even a life partner. Probably never will. I am just too cracked for too long.
The lockdowns make it so much harder to cope with that reality. I had peop in my life almost like family but like family they busted so many boundaries I started to crack and distanced and it’s not a returnable situation. They at least were a connection in the last lockdown.
Now it’s soon to be my dog and I and a fight to mentally and financially survive without the human connections that help my brain.
Then add in the holiday season.,,