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[quote=Anonymous]I had been trying to stay afloat this entire pandemic, since everything shut down in March. Tried to find ways to find the silver lining in everything--in early 2020 it was spending more time with my kids outside on hikes throughout the DMV, in the fall of 2020 it was being thankful I had the resources to send my youngest to private (for just that year) so he could at least attend school in person, in the winter of 2020 it was feeling hopeful about the vaccines that were about to be released even though we couldn't gather when friends and family at the time, and earlier this year it was feeling hopeful about having received that vaccine even as things started to look grim again with Delta. And now, now with Omicron I've lost all hope. My hope has run out and I'm completely spent.  I feel like I'm having a nervous breakdown. I'm facing my youngest being home again and being socially isolated (because he is socially isolated when he's not in school and school is everything to him).  We had been planning for an event for the end of February that I had been looking forward to so much and just had to cancel after months of going back and forth on whether we can/can't do this and being encouraged earlier on in the year even through Delta that things would be fine, and this was just the last straw for me.  I mean when does this end? When can we just get back to normal life? And yes these problems are miniscule compared to people who have lost family members, lost their jobs, lost their homes, have suffered emotionally/mentally, but in my little corner of the world, I am just completely lost and my hope has run out and I don't even know how to find the silver lining anymore. Yes, I'm healthy, I have a job, I have a great family ,etc. but even being happy about those things are not enough anymore. I just want all the stress and tension around this to end. I'm exhausted by this and don't even know how to feel happy about life right now because we aren't really living. We're stuck in this perpetual state of uncertainty and I can't take it anymore.  [/quote]

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