Thank you @Taylor-RO @Ezle @StormySeas17 for your support and advice 🙂

I feel like it's a really hard time to be a young person and it seems like the adults (well, the adultier adults who are older than us) don't understand how serious it is for our mental health. Being young and grappling with adulthood itself is hard enough and now we are confronted with the reality of people dying en masse all around the world due to a pandemic, a recession, and expected to still work/study even though we are not allowed to leave our houses, do most of our hobbies or see our friends and family. The uni has put some measures in place, but students had to campaign hard for it. It makes me sad that my uni didn't want to be compassionate in the first place, we had to force them to do it. It seems that the world is not a very compassionate place.

I had a chat to someone from Beyond blue and she just said "well even though isolation isn't healthy, it's not healthy to get the coronavirus either, so don't you think lockdown is a better option?" Of course lockdown is necessary for our health but that doesn't make me feel any better. She also said "well our parents and grandparents lived through the influenza pandemic" and I don't know how that's supposed to be encouraging.

I just feel really devastated because I have had mental health struggles all my life (it runs in my family) and I have been trying so hard to change things for myself and work hard with a therapist to improve my wellbeing. but there is only so much you can do to feel better in a situation like this. I feel a lot of pain and sadness about everything.

Thanks for listening. I'll definitely be okay, I just had to vent about it!!

2020 - Why do we have to pretend things are normal??

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