It occurred to me the other day in a conversation about mental health that we might all be having mental breakdowns of varying degrees and not being entirely aware of it due to a lack of reference points.
I spent little time at home before lockdown so I actually have little idea how I'm coping. I am exhausted all the time, it takes me a long time to complete simple tasks as my brain is constantly muddled, but I am nowhere near my normal routine to measure my performance against.
So the reality is despite knowing I am not feeling well amongst all of this, with heightened anxiety and horrible lethargy, the severity is impossible to measure. And I wonder how many of us are all struggling much more than we think we are with little to measure it against.
I don't really know where I was going with this. It feels weird seeing people standing close together and shaking hands on TV, I live in like 30sq ft with my girlfriend and it feels like we've never left this flat sometimes.

I hope everyone is doing okay.
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