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Originally Posted by unaluna
Me too. I didnt swim last year. Now i wonder if the pool will even open this year. You dont know what youve got til its gone.
Youre not alone in being alone, not that thats any consolation. But it is keeping us safe and giving us a chance.
There are a lot of people here on pc who are writing in saying, uh, this is not too different from my usual life anyway. You might try to find us and see what we are doing to cope. Or just how we are managing day to day. For me, connecting to different people here helps. Different people have different strengths, different views, different challenges, different resources, different responsibilities.
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Thanks. I have been socially isolated for a few years. This week I called a crisis hotline and the counselor said, "Well, you are an expert at social isolation. You know how to do it." Well...no. I went out a lot...to the library, movies, coffee, shopping, swimming, church, bookstores, lectures, and to the planetarium. I was planning to expand in 2020 not contract.
The point is...I have learned to cope with social isolation...but I hate it.
I don't want to learn how to cope with social isolation. I think it is very detrimental. What is hard is breaking out of social isolation. I have even had therapists tell me they couldn't help me do it. So I don't want to know how to do social isolation better. I don't want this. It's cruel. It's crappy. And it is freaking boring. After Covid 19 I need to change my life.