oHHHH MY! Quarantine is really getting to me. At first it seemed like a great idea, but now I am going crazy. All I have been doing is eating. When I'm not doing that, I'm watching the news. I just want to know when it will all end, because I am ready to go back to work and living my normal and busy life. I never realized how beneficial it was for me to stay busy until this happened! It is also not fun not being able to go to Walmart at midnight out of boredom anymore...
I've been under quarantine for the past half-year (essentially) due to recovering from an immune disorder. The stress of quarantine can be rough.
My best advice for people who are struggling right now - your body and your culture are used to having structure. Even if it's something as simple as a daily commute. Without that structure, you can struggle with feelings of hopelessness or uselessness because you're not doing what you've trained yourself to do for so long.
Try to provide yourself with some sort of structure. If you have the spare time, right now is great to work on some sort of hobby or skill. You can set aside time every day to practice a language (preferably with someone else online!), work on your crafting skills, or anything else you can do that would provide meaningful work for you. Just remember, "meaningful" doesn't necessarily mean "profitable." If taking time during the quarantine to relax and play Animal Crossing is for you, then go for it! Just try to work on a goal in the game, too.
Tryna savour it tbh. This is the perfect excuse for me to do absolutely nothing but i like having schedules and routines so without that, i feel like im losing purpose lol. i keep losing track what day of the week it is so I was really surprised that it was Saturday already
I do miss my friends at daytime activities a lot, and I'm occasionally bored of my currently distorted schedule right now... but I am still keeping it up, though! I stay home as much as possible and only come outside to take out the trash or do groceries.
Inside, I keep myself alive with, if it's not food, video games on a daily basis (especially ACNL, because I need to stay in touch with the neighbours and water my flowers, too!), reading, writing, drawing (you can check out comics and such regarding my Super Mario AU here), music (sadly, my apartment is too small for any instruments, so I'm just listening to music for most of the time), and a whole plethora of various movies that I've saved on my Netflix list.
I’m enjoying it to an extent... I’m glad I get to watch Naruto and play New Horizons... but I miss my friends, college life, and I hate online classes... But I’m trying to stay optimistic and I’m glad I get to spend time with my family! Just taking it one day at a time :/
To be honest, I love alone time and so I'm trying to make the most of it. Isolation couldn't have come at a better time with the recent release of NH. I'm also using this time to learn to crochet and recycle/unpick old jumpers, and I just feel this overwhelming desire to get back into my drawings again. I'm just doing the things I enjoy.
i have isolation issues due to mental health problems and i was recovering slowly but surely and being locked indoors for over a month is gonna undo all of my progress. feels bad man
I really hate isolation. Life's been pretty much cut short and there were people that I was getting friendly with and one of my best friends and I aren't having the best relations right now. It's like a lot of my life is being taken away and I don't know if I'll be able to make it up.
Originally, I was furloughed from my crappy job, then subsequently laid off. I was happy to be out of public space, but at the time, I could not get anything like rent or loans etc frozen, (though, to our landlord's credit, she was trying to work with us as much as possible) so I was freaking out over money. That was a week and a half ago.
My boyfriend's mother offered me a position in her company, so I traveled 6 hours to train at the new job, and now I'm working from home, in a comfortable job, which pays significantly better with better benefits than the job that laid me off.
it’s insane i used to reside in a lively college campus and now i’m in social isolation. all i’ve done is wake up, eat, walk my dog, play new horizons, sleep, and repeat. i still have classes but my professors are giving us all As so i’ve had little motivation to do anything else
I'm intensely introverted while also working a retail job during a global pandemic, so not so great - no option to quarantine for me! But I do have a week of vacation saved up and ready to go in two weeks, so I'm hoping I'll be able to just spend some time gaming and giving myself a mental health break. Normally, two weeks wouldn't seem like a long wait, but with how fast things are moving each day, it's stressful and worrying.
i asked for a miracle to play acnh but this wasn't what i was expecing. i've been in isolation for a week and i'm not really coping? like i'm fine being on my own but i find it hard to enforce structure without working so i've just been eating junk food and sleeping at all hours of the day. i'll be working from home in the not too far future though so that should give me some structure back (and then no doubt i'll resent that lol)
Quarantine has presented itself as a mixed bag for me. I recently returned from a 4 year trip to study abroad in South Korea around 5 months ago. As great as it is to be back with my parents, the isolation is starting to rub off an exponential affect of stress. This was only multiplied a couple weeks ago when one of my father's coworkers shot a close family friend, leaving my father's company in chaos. It's putting quite a damper on what I was expecting as a "welcome back" year, as everybody is agitated, rightfully so.
The most I can do is to finish incomplete projects over the years. I've been transposing music, adding new songs to playlists, writing about my study abroad, all that jazz. In fact, today was the first day I've legit been back since 2016 (wassup mogyay). It's definitely a zenith for the world as of right now, but we can only hope to take what we have in strides
As of now, my city is on lockdown: you're only allowed to leave the house to get essentials or if you need take a walk/get some exercise.
It's so surreal that we are currently living during these times. This moment will be put into history textbooks for the next generations to read about. I, a future history teacher, will be possibly discussing this to students who weren't even alive during this historic event.
That is, if we even survive this.
I have a feeling we will though. Sure, lots of people will perish if it does end up infecting almost everyone, but it's been shown that people don't even know they have the coronavirus and they're perfectly fine. My generation is only quarantining for the sake of the eldery and those with medical conditions that make it difficult to survive the virus.
That being said, quarantine is going fine with me.
I'm already an introvert that stays home all day and yeah, it's weird I'm back at my mother's house because my campus is closed except for the few people that can't go home. And now I have my mother breathing down my neck about getting a job (even though I have enough money to pay tuition and we're getting checks from the government thanks to the new relief bill) and going out to exercise.
It's been fine.
The only thing that worries me, though, is the fact that isolation will really mess me up mentally, and it's already showing, as I sobbed into my pillow early in the morning because thoughts about my past came up. I get bad thoughts when I'm alone for long enough and being a really reserved person, venting to others is difficult for me. Even articulating my feelings is hard enough, sometimes I don't even know why I'm feeling certain ways. Maybe it's because I have some kind of disability? I'm not sure.
Sorry, I'm rambling, lol. But New Horizons has been helping me keep myself distracted! I already have three dreamies and although my town still looks like garbage after 120 hours of gameplay (Most of it was from grinding Nook Miles and island hopping), I can't wait to slowly build up my island! It has been kind of harmful though, because I have insomnia and my body won't allow me to fall asleep unless it wants to, and the game might be enabling that. But right now quarantine is going fine for me! Sorry for the long post, lol.
I got home from college on spring break right when this was about to kick off, so on my first days back I only got to see two of my friends and my girlfriend--I haven't seen any of my friends since. It's nice to hang out with my family and all, but sitting inside all day really does kill.
My parents don't even want me leaving the house because I've started coughing. It's lingered for a few days but I can't foresee it becoming anything serious. Overall, quarantine really sucks, even if I've got New Horizons and music to keep me company, but "absence makes the heart grow fonder" or whatever so seeing all my friends once this is all over will probably be the happiest moment of my life,
