Can Living Through a Pandemic Bring on Depression?

It’s just another day of waking up with nothing to do and nowhere to go!

After retiring from a teaching/librarian job that had me putting in at least ten hours a day, retirement was both a relief and a shock.

First, I experienced euphoria because the stress of working a job where the chores were never ending had officially ended, and then there was the shock of having nothing to do.

Gradually I began to figure out my life. First, I found one part-time job and then another. Then I discovered physical fitness classes offered by the local hospital.

My best friend retired, and we got together daily to exercise.

Then one day, everything changed.

My friend and I were at the gym on a Friday, and by Monday, the world had shut down.

It was March 2020, so you know what I mean. The schools closed. The gym was closed. The classes that the hospital offered were canceled.

Everyone was scared. I sat in front of the news watching in horror as people I didn’t know died. Then it started happening to people that I did know.

My son attended a small party of kids from his high school. Unfortunately, one of the kids was exposed to COVID at a wedding, but he went to the party since he didn’t feel sick.

It was unbelievable to me that his parents let him attend that party! My now asymptomatic son brought it home and gave it to my husband, older son, and me. Fortunately, we all recovered.

Christmas 2020 was a small affair. Some of my extended family chose not to come. As a result, they missed the last Christmas that my sister had on this Earth.

I can remember back then how every day I would wake up with the hope that this pandemic would be over soon.

How unfortunate it is that I wake up and hope the very same thing a year later.

Now, as we approach the end of January 29, 2022, a new version of COVID has arrived. Once…

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