Sunday, August 08, 2021

Does anyone feel this way?

It's been a minute since I've updated or written. It's a few days before the start of the school year. The pandemic continues. I have started doing more things with people and things that I enjoy since being fully vaccinated in April. This feels like a must do. My mental health struggles if I would have continued on the path of staying home and not seeing people. Yet here we are...with a highly contagious variant on the brink of sending my 11 year old who is not eligible or old enough to be vaccinated into school without any mask requirement so far. This alone is controversial. If you disagree with me, I'm just gonna have to say we're going to have to agree to disagree on this matter. This weekend I find myself feeling very fatigued. I aimlessly scroll social media and then feel regret after doing it. More bad news...hospitals filling up, more people dying, and the controversy over the kids. So much fighting. And I wonder why my mental health struggles. So I am existing and trying the best that I can to continue to get through the pandemic without actually looking for mental health resources. I have returned to my workout location. Classes are very small, I know most everyone and we are all vaccinated. I know that this doesn't mean that I can't catch or won't catch Covid. Besides mental health suffering, my actual physical health is suffering. I haven't been able to pull together enough to try to lose weight, even though I need to. My skin is wreaking havoc and I feel like it's hormonal changes but in addition to that from what I Google point to signs of pre-diabetes or possibly insulin resistance. I have an appointment for a functional nurse practitioner to draw up some bloodwork to check hormone levels in November. I'm hoping to be in better shape by then. I also haven't had the energy to go see my new PCP to get the bloodwork drawn, but I know I need to. The list is long of the things that I need to do, but feel somewhat paralyzed by current circumstances. Depressed? Quite possibly so. I also don't feel like I have the energy to figure this out right now. I feel almost numb. At times angry, but many times just kind of going through the motions. I know my husband senses this. Has questioned me about it, but I have no answers. I am fine. Some days I'm cheery and happy, other days and more often than the cheery days, less so. The world just feels so different, and it feels like it has changed for the worse and will never go back to what it was before. I don't know what I need. I just wonder....does anyone feel this way? What are you doing to help this current situation?

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