#pandmic

1st week in forced isolation due to permanent WFH requirements

Honestly, I’m struggling.

Being in forced isolation is hard.  Prior to the pandemic, I never really was able to hang out with my friends because I would always get turned down.  I was the only one ever planning anything, but of course they have their own friends and their own lives.  I’m not a priority in their lives, and that’s okay.  However, the only human interaction I had was at work.  Now that we all have to work from home, I feel like I am cut off from the rest of the world.

I am lonely.  I try to chat with others during the day but I don’t want to be distracting while they are also working from home.  I’ve asked if they would like to have Zoom/Skype sessions like everyone else is doing but they all decline. 

I am struggling.  The boredom kills me.  I don’t have any hobbies I genuinely enjoy, there’s only so much Netflix I can watch.  I don’t have any energy to even leave the house to go for a walk, despite not actually doing anything.  It feels like a kind of depression without the obvious sadness.  That is something I know I need to sort out.

I am an introverted extrovert.  I need my down time to recharge, but I can’t be alone for days on end with no human contact. This pandemic is destroying my mental health but I know by me staying home it is giving everyone else a fighting chance.