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Your Feelings of Depression and Anxiety are Valid
This is the impact of COVID-19 we need to pay more attention to — mental health.
Even the least empathic person out there can feel it.
The distress. That overwhelming sense of uncertainty, dis-ease, and inexplicable dread. It’s like someone placed a cloud over 2020 that lets in very little of the sun.
Whether you are still working, a critical worker, furloughed, schooling at home, or know people who have had their life situation impacted by the pandemic — the collective consciousness has been disrupted.
Life as we know it has shifted dramatically. And it is still shifting — which just fuels uncertainty, concern, and a genuine sense of “what the fuck?”
While the overall odds of people contracting COVID-19 are low, the reality of a psychological impact is high.
What you are feeling may be unique to you — but you are most certainly not alone in feeling it. The mental and emotional toll of the pandemic, combined with social-distancing, unexpected and largely unwelcome change, bizarre politics, and everything happening all at once is profound.
Feeling anxious and/or depressed? You are not alone — and this is not something we should sweep under the rug at this…
