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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone said this is temporary and while it is, the impact to your mental health may not be temporary. Call your EAP. What we are feeling will not just disappear when COVID is contained. If you don’t tend to your mental health and relationships now, there may be nothing left when this ends. [/quote]

NP here who is experiencing the same things. I called my EAP. I was matched with a LCSW who then referred me back to my EAP because she said my "passive suicidal ideation" was out of her depth. I'm now waiting another 5 days to speak to this new psych referral and trying to squeeze in time to call the additional providers I found who 1) take my insurance and 2) are taking new patients. The overlap there is very, very small. It seems just finding someone to talk to is a 2nd job in and of itself. OP, I truly sympathize with you. I am trying, trying, trying to work my schedule so I can go to bed a little earlier, get up a little earlier and squeeze in an extra hour to do the bare self-care minimum of some headspace app time and 30 minutes of exercise but that's just keeping my head above water. Taking PTO doesn't help because it means more work when I return. We put our daughter back in preschool and that has helped some and has freed up time to supervise virtual school for the ES-ers, but adds to the covid exposure anxiety. Perimenopause and a few other common midlife stressors are compounding things for me, too. You're not alone.[/quote]

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