Depression – Breaking Out of the Cocoon and Thinking You ' ve Failed

Sometimes we can be so fixated upon the finish line that we miss how far we’ve already come.© Alan Watson Featherstone Ah, if I hear another commercial on the radio with a smooth-talking announcer earnestly pretending their company cares about me during these“unprecedented times”, I may puke. I’ve moved way beyond that acid reflux-ish moment where my stomach’s contents race to my mouth to voice their opinion. I may not be able to hold them back next time. Between you and me, I’m a little worried about it. I’m still making payments on my car.So I’m not going to talk to you as if you just woke up next to Rip Van Winkle and need me to explain what COVID–19 is. I’m just going to write from my heart about how this pandemic has affected me, and maybe you’ll be able to relate:I feel like my life has been sealed in a cocoon.This is a funny thing to write because I’ve never before been so productive in my life. No, theBIG goals like publishing my new books haven’t been accomplished yet, but I’m paying off debts, I successfully swam through oceans of paperwork and petitioned for guardianship of my disabled daughter, I’m the fittest I’ve ever been in my adult life, I’m dating again (which means I occasionally leave my home), people pay me to write for some reason, and I have raised four lovely daughters.But life feels like it’s on hold. Some of that is the pandemic’...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Depression Goodreads Journaling Writing Source Type: blogs