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No need to apologize for venting, it's healthy to get things out of your system sometimes and a forum can be a good place to do it. I wish you the best and hope you feel better soon.
I personally have been very fortunate as my country has been one of the least hard hit by COVID in the world thanks to us being an island and implementing strict containment measures early on.
As an obsessive compulsive whose main fixation is disease, it's been a big struggle for me regardless; a pandemic has been one of my biggest fears since I saw Bird Flu on the news as a child, and I'm germ-phobic even at the best of times, so for most of this year I've been locking myself away at home and only going out to exercise or for medical appointments. For many years I have been struggling to overcome and minimize my OCD and the pandemic has effectively set me back by a decade in terms of the progress I'd made.
The isolation has also been hard to cope with; it's been extremely lonely at times, and my depression got pretty bad for a while in the middle of the year.
Still, I cannot complain too much; I'm relatively safe at least, and I'm working towards building up the courage to see my friends in person again now COVID appears to have been eliminated from my state and restrictions have lifted. This weekend I will be seeing my mother and step-Dad for the first time in 6 months, really looking forward to that.
My job has also been going really, really well in spite of the pandemic, as has my recovery from major surgery in April. At the moment I'm trying to make a conscious effort to focus more on the positives, and my mental health has improved quite a bit in the last two months; I still have my rough days, but I no longer feel like I'm fighting to keep my head above water on a daily basis.
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you all for being a supportive community for me during this time. I hope my depression didn't make me too unpleasant to deal with for the first 8 months or so of the year, when the pandemic and cancer combined to kinda tip me over the edge. You guys are great.
Last edited by curl-6 - on 17 November 2020
