anxiety and have done for as long as I can remember. One of my triggers is illness. I’m also a home bird at heart. I live away from my family and part of my self-care is to visit as much as I can.
It helps ground me and makes me feel settled so you can imagine the way this year has unfolded has been a bit of a nightmare.Hearing the news every day, infection and death rates going up, being around people not knowing if they or I had Covid-19, having a group text between friends that used to talk about normal things change its name to ‘Remember: wash your hands’ and solely discussed everything Covid related.
Being away from my parents knowing they work front facing with the public was also slowly building the pressure of panic in me.
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