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If you feel your mental health has changed since the pandemic started, talk a bit about how, and why.
I feel like I have gone through the whole grief cycle in the last year. First “it’ll never come over here” and “it won’t last”. Then great and anxiety about food supply chains and wishing desperately that we had room in our tiny house for a chest freezer. Then “what the hell people, wear your damn masks or we’ll all be trapped in our homes forever!” Many, many weeks of depression and palpable anxiety. And finally, in just the last week or two, something approaching acceptance. I’ve figured out a system that works for me while [my husband] is deployed, and hopefully will work for him when he gets back and we have to share the space again. E. has a good routine and social life with daycare and our daycare family bubble. I can bake amazing challah and pizza dough after making them both nearly every week for more than 50 weeks now. More and more people around me are getting vaccinated. Maybe soon I can be vaccinated. There is still a cynical voice in the back waiting to be let down or disappointed, but in general the optimist is winning.
March 21, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
Tier 4 I feel really bad for all the people who last minute had their Christmas plans cancelled. All the people who needed to scramble to get food and decorations. All the people who will not see their loved ones. All the people that this date was a glimmer of hope, and now taken away. It is also scary. I want to yell at the government. Why have they not taken things more seriously earlier?! How did we get to such a place?! When will you learn from the past few months? This is no longer March or April when we didn't know what stops things, what needs to happen. It is all your fault that we are in this state. It is your fault that so many people are angry. It is your fault that so many people are confused. It is your fault that so many people are dying. Also all the people living in the country - WTF - wear a mask; stay home; wash your hands. I don't understand why there are still people (or how there are still people) who don't see this as serious; who don't see this as part of their responsibility. I broke down this week unsure again if and when I will see my family. Yes vaccines are slowly getting given, but when will everyone get one. When can I travel. When will I get one. When will my family get one. So just feel sad and missing them deeply.
December 25, 2020