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Originally Posted by rechu
@ Discombobulated - Yeah I feel like my husband is doing the same, becoming more reclusive due to the pandemic.
Now my brother's girlfriend has Covid as well. They live together, so it is not exactly surprising. So far she has symptoms but they are relatively mild. She is vaccinated with two doses too.
The assumption is that it likely is Omicron since two doses don't seem to do much to limit infection, but they haven't gotten confirmation.
I continue to be amazed that our little country has been able to get boosters out to more people than almost all developed countries. So far we have three cases, a guy that was recently in Ghana and two close contacts. |
3 cases. NL is getting close to 100 I think? Don't know about Germany but just read my city alone has 17 cases.
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Originally Posted by Discombobulated
(((( @ BreakForTheLight. ))) oh the dark! It’s so hard isn’t it, I think we’re similar in the UK, we’ve had our lights on most of today I think. I really need those Christmas lights (I find it difficult in January when they are gone).
Do you have some nice things for yourself planned over the Christmas? Movies? Books? Cooking? Be kind to yourself. |
And we're not even at the longest night of the year yet
I get nothing done at all in the evening because it always feels like it's late already when I finish work. (I finish work at 16:30). Back at the office at my previous job, we'd go for a walk on our coffee breaks so I at least got outside in some daylight. But since I live on the 4th floor, it's not worth going outside when I just have 15 minutes. It's not fully light yet when I start work and already dark when I finish.
I have Christmas lights up all year round
But I'm not in the mood to use them yet. I haven't even gotten out my Christmas decoration. It's not even like it's a huge effort or something - it's just in a box on top of my shoe closet - but I can't be bothered.
My plans for Christmas are probably just watching movies for 2,5 days straight. If I can find anything good. I have both Netflix and Amazon prime but can never find anything to watch
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Originally Posted by SprinkL3
 
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). |
YES! That is exactly how I feel as well. I also remember when things were just getting bad, you'd see videos from Italy of apartment blocks all coming together on their respective balconies and people pulling together to help others.... Yeah, I saw nothing of the sort in my area. Just people ignoring the rules and not giving a crap about anyone but themselves.
I'm glad there's still this forum here.
Remember back in February/March last year, we thought it'd all be over in a few months *sigh* now here we are.
I know I need to distract myself and do things that bring me joy but it's so hard to get motivated. I'm trying to go for a short walk every day (even if it's already dark outside) and it's better than nothing, but not nearly enough.
Trying really hard not to gain 10-15 kg again. Being sad, bored and lonely always makes me feel hungry and I just want to stuff my face constantly with chocolate and cookies and pizzas. But I don't want to get back to being as big as I was before