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Old Dec 12, 2021, 11:01 AM
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Originally Posted by BreakForTheLight View Post
Everything is kind of coming together now and I'm really struggling sorry another rant. You know the worst part is when you know complaining doesn't help and you just want to focus on the positive things but the negatives are so overwhelming you can't find them?

I always have a hard time in winter. No matter how much I love all the good parts about it, I just need more daylight! This afternoon it was just 3 PM when I switched on the lights because it was starting to get dark. How do people further north manage where they don't even see any daylight at all for months?

I'm gonna stay here by myself this Christmas. It's lonely. I wish I felt like people in my life still care. But no one has stayed in touch. Then again, I don't have the energy to reach out to anyone/ don't have the confidence, think people don't want to hear from me anyway, so I can't really expect people to reach out to me, either.

I guess this is more my issues than it's caused by Covid, really. But it makes things a little harder.


I'm so sorry you are struggling with loneliness and other stressors. Your rant is indeed valid. There are publications out there about how some of the disabled, including mentally disabled, are really struggling with loneliness during this pandemic. I thought that more people would be online and thus have time to support me, but the opposite happened to me. My expectations were high that I wouldn't be alone in the homebound struggle, but then I realized that wasn't true, and that I remained more homebound while others took more risks to socialize in person and quell their cognitive dissonance by ignoring the elderly, the disabled, the homebound, the immunocompromised, the long-covid sufferers, and more. It's sad when what helps the able-bodied really becomes the detriment to the disabled and otherwise who could use their support. "Compassion fatigue" is something that therapists and able-bodied people alike struggle with when encountering disabled persons who truly do need more care than they can reciprocate in any given relationship. We just don't have the same energy levels, risk factors, and otherwise that able-bodied and neurotypicals have.

I feel depressed, stressed, lost, alone, rejected, invalidated, and more during this pandemic, but I've also had a lesser degree of those feelings prior to the pandemic. It's both a structural (societal) issue as well as individual factors. Therapists can help us with the individual factors by placing responsibility on individual clients to cope better, use better social skills, etc., but they aren't there to help with the structural factors (the loci of responsibility that certain institutions and societies can offer to support the elderly and disabled more, as opposed to ignoring them altogether).
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