Anybody else feeling exhausted by quarantine?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every couple weeks or so I'll have a day when I feel pretty depressed, and I'll try to do something to make it better, like order something good for lunch or dinner.

I try to get out of the house to the park with 3yo every day that it isn't raining buckets. I try to do calls with people (either for the kid or for me).

I cannot keep up with keeping my house clean. Even if I worked on it from morning to night and ignored the kid, I don't see how it would all get done (and I'm not willing to ignore the kid).

I'm not even working at a job, and it's still super overwhelming sometimes.

I’m currently laid off. I’d like to be doing online classes, but everything you just said is why I can’t. My husband has been working from home and has had a light schedule but won’t offer assistance during the day and has been pretending to be working during his lunch break. I found him taking a nap the other day. I don’t begrudge him not helping but it would be awesome if that hour he has off he could spell me for a few minutes. We have a very high needs child and I’m disintegrating as a adult human. He doesn’t help much more in the weekends either. He wants to do his workout and gets irritated with our child lately, so when/if I go for a run it’s utter chaos when I get home. It’s been rough.

Adding, it was not like this when we both were working out of the home. I don’t like that’s it’s suddenly the 1950s around here.

[Anonymous]

No, but I have a thyroid condition that flared up and caused me great fatigue until I could get a med change.

[Anonymous]

So, the is the OP checking back in. It helped me feel like I'm not alone to vent a bit on here so thanks for listening.

It was a bad day and today was better. I also drank more water and took my vitamins.

I run my own business that I can do from home but usually involves going out quite a bit. The fun part is not at home.

I don't really consider myself a SAHM since the kids are usually in school full time and I work for the entire time they are in school. Having a quarantine end that is beyond my control and beyond the control of all of us.

Once upon a time I was and it was nothing like this. I went out every day, we met up with friends, we walked to the playground. I loved it.

This is different. We can't go to the playground.
We can't go to any stores or indoor play areas. Or outdoor play areas with lots of kids or museums.

I hope that those of you out there who are staying at home for the first time during this pandemic will keep in mind that this is nothing like being a SAHM usually.

And, I do have both thyroid issues and deal with anxiety and take medication for each.

But the bad days just feel very bad in quarantine because this much more limited world is like a pressure cooker. And knowing that this disease is sticking around for some unlimited amount of time is a bummer.

I did a lot of work on my business today and it felt a lot better.

[Anonymous]

Our previous life seems like a dream now. Did we really just meet up with people without a care in the world? Did we really travel all over? Did we sleep walk through the grocery store picking up this and that? We never really worried about catching a disease from walking around ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, the is the OP checking back in. It helped me feel like I'm not alone to vent a bit on here so thanks for listening.

It was a bad day and today was better. I also drank more water and took my vitamins.

I run my own business that I can do from home but usually involves going out quite a bit. The fun part is not at home.

I don't really consider myself a SAHM since the kids are usually in school full time and I work for the entire time they are in school. Having a quarantine end that is beyond my control and beyond the control of all of us.

Once upon a time I was and it was nothing like this. I went out every day, we met up with friends, we walked to the playground. I loved it.

This is different. We can't go to the playground.
We can't go to any stores or indoor play areas. Or outdoor play areas with lots of kids or museums.

I hope that those of you out there who are staying at home for the first time during this pandemic will keep in mind that this is nothing like being a SAHM usually.

And, I do have both thyroid issues and deal with anxiety and take medication for each.

But the bad days just feel very bad in quarantine because this much more limited world is like a pressure cooker. And knowing that this disease is sticking around for some unlimited amount of time is a bummer.

I did a lot of work on my business today and it felt a lot better.

Are you in an MLM?

[Anonymous]

I see some friends and that has made all the difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, the is the OP checking back in. It helped me feel like I'm not alone to vent a bit on here so thanks for listening.

It was a bad day and today was better. I also drank more water and took my vitamins.

I run my own business that I can do from home but usually involves going out quite a bit. The fun part is not at home.

I don't really consider myself a SAHM since the kids are usually in school full time and I work for the entire time they are in school. Having a quarantine end that is beyond my control and beyond the control of all of us.

Once upon a time I was and it was nothing like this. I went out every day, we met up with friends, we walked to the playground. I loved it.

This is different. We can't go to the playground.
We can't go to any stores or indoor play areas. Or outdoor play areas with lots of kids or museums.

I hope that those of you out there who are staying at home for the first time during this pandemic will keep in mind that this is nothing like being a SAHM usually.

And, I do have both thyroid issues and deal with anxiety and take medication for each.

But the bad days just feel very bad in quarantine because this much more limited world is like a pressure cooker. And knowing that this disease is sticking around for some unlimited amount of time is a bummer.

I did a lot of work on my business today and it felt a lot better.

Are you in an MLM?[

Nope. They suck. I just have a small online store.

[Anonymous]

Everybody is going through the same thing as you. The secret is not to whine and complain because it gets you nowhere! Be grateful for what you have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everybody is going through the same thing as you. The secret is not to whine and complain because it gets you nowhere! Be grateful for what you have.

Why did you reply? Complaining about it on this thread did help. I've been sucking it up for months. Did the title of the thread not give it away?

[Anonymous]

Everybody is going through the same thing as you. The secret is not to whine and complain because it gets you nowhere! Be grateful for what you have.

This is not the "secret." Though I hear coming on anonymous boards and telling people looking for understanding that they are "whiny" is a good way of fostering your own sense of superiority and self-importance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our previous life seems like a dream now. Did we really just meet up with people without a care in the world? Did we really travel all over? Did we sleep walk through the grocery store picking up this and that? We never really worried about catching a disease from walking around ...

+1. Going to a movie and dinner with friends... Taking the kids to the playground to play with other kids and learn to share... Hugging your grandmother...

It was all so lovely!!

[Anonymous]

I've been completely exhausted the last few days- almost think maybe I have it.... Ihaveititis is most likely the case and it's prob. my allergies

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've been completely exhausted the last few days- almost think maybe I have it.... Ihaveititis is most likely the case and it's prob. my allergies

Allergies are the worst this year. I'm sneezing all day long.

[Anonymous]

I am the poster who listed the positive things I’m trying to do daily. Just for some levity, yesterday was my worst day of the entire last three months... I just lost it on my kids and cried on and off most of the day. For sure I think I have depression but the things I previously listed truly and honestly help me stay sane (at least on the outside) except for the rare day like yesterday. Just wanted to put it out there that it’s going to get the best of us sometimes, and that’s okay. I am bolstered for many more days like yesterday since there’s no end in sight to this disease and I don’t even know if I’ll send my kids back to school next year, but as long as my fake it till you make it days outweigh the depression days I feel like I’m winning mom of the year over here.

[Anonymous]

Yesterday was also one of the suckiest days of my recent life, PP