Your feelings—whatever they may be—are valid.
crisis upended my life, I’ve opened with some iteration of, “I don’t even know what to talk about today. I’m feeling 6 million different things.” Each new session, I bring with me the baggage of a week that felt like a year. How can I decide between talking about how lonely I feel in isolation and how stressed I am about my family and how guilty I feel about falling behind at work and how hopeless I feel about American politics and…well, you get the idea.
activity of yours that the pandemic has derailed. “There are so many more things draining us than things fortifying us right now,” says Howes. “That’s a recipe for burnout right there.”of things to be angry about right now, whether you’re frustrated at people who aren’t taking this seriously enough or have a lot of feelings about how the pandemic is being handled on a structural level.
, L.C.S.W., tells SELF. “Some have noted fear and anxiety about taking breaks for lunch or restroom breaks for fear that their supervisor will reach out to them and they will not be there to respond within minutes.”There’s no denying that the pandemic completely disrupted life as we know it, forcing a lot of people to miss out on experiences they’d been looking forward to for a long time.
, L.M.F.T., tells SELF. “It creates this dreadful feeling of having nothing to look forward to because we are uncertain of what is coming.”Many therapists are hearing from people who are guilt-ridden about how their experiences and concerns compare to those who are more vulnerable to the negative impacts of the pandemic.
“People are wrestling with the various stages of grief and don’t know why they feel this way,” says Howes. “But you might be grieving the loss of many things in your life right now.”
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