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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did you stop drinking recently because you were drinking too much?  Your mind and body are reacting to the change.  It should level out in a couple weeks. [/quote]

Nope, just realized it wasn’t helping me with sleep and giving me heartburn. I’ve taken Zoloft before and had depression in my late teens. This isn’t it, and SSRIs didn’t help me back then (tried most of them over a period of a few years). When I was depressed I couldn’t get out of bed. This is not that, it’s different. It’s like brain fog, feeling really blah and just exhausted from pretending to be an epidemiologist and judging the relative safety of pretty much everything we do for the last 2 years. I don’t want to be acting more cautiously, and would love to go to the moves, but I do not think that is a responsible
Choice right now. However, I still am having a hard time with that even though I feel I am doing what is right for my kid’s and our health care system. [/quote]

NP. Same, OP. I had a major depressive episode in my 20s and I was not functioning. It was very hard to find medication that works. So last year I kept saying I wasn’t depressed, because I was functioning fine, but just as you described - brain fog, exhaustion, blahs. Totally normal during a pandemic I thought. I finally agreed to start an antidepressant and it took a couple of tries to get the right one but man, it was like someone turned on the light in my brain! I could see and think clearly for the first time in who knows how long. It’s worth talking to your doctor about. I’m actually seeing (telehealth) a psychiatric nurse practitioner and he has been very helpful in figuring out the right Rx for me.

I am also the most COVID cautious person I know and have an unvaxxed kid (plus a 5 year old who just got vaxxed in November). I wouldn’t go to the movies now either. But window shopping is right up my alley. The farmers market, even when it’s cold, is something, too. I’m doing dog training for one hour once a week, and that’s indoors (trainer and I both wear N95s). I meet friends about every 6 weeks for dinner outdoors/semi-outdoors. We did just postpone last weekend’s meeting until after this wave dies down. I’ve been to yoga a few times, and will go back in a few weeks. I’d also be comfortable meeting with friends for a masked walk or afternoon around the fire pit.

Some of staying in and isolated so much is it becomes habit and seems like the only safe way to be, but it is really wearing. Push your comfort zone a little bit. Find something outdoors and masked with someone else maybe. It will help. [/quote]

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