HostToast
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My family and I recently lost someone very special, they were young and healthy and it was very sudden and devastating for all of us. I took all last week off work to make arrangements and be with family. I've been doing better at coping with everything the last few days but I'm having trouble returning to normal life, everything feels so difficult and overwhelming. No matter how much I sleep I'm still tired, when I'm working I find myself just staring at my computer doing nothing, simple tasks like making breakfast take twice as long as it usually would, just writing this post is hard.
Writing this I realize I'm just describing symptoms of depression which I've dealt with most my life but this feels different. I've dealt with loss before but its never impacted me this hard. I really need to be able to get back into some kind of routine, I know he'd want me to move on and not mourn the rest of my life away. I have a very supportive wife and close family members but I don't want to burden them with my problems. I have a therapist but they are going to be out of the office until mid November.
I realize I'm asking for answers to impossible questions but any advice on returning to normalcy in difficult times would be appreciated.
Writing this I realize I'm just describing symptoms of depression which I've dealt with most my life but this feels different. I've dealt with loss before but its never impacted me this hard. I really need to be able to get back into some kind of routine, I know he'd want me to move on and not mourn the rest of my life away. I have a very supportive wife and close family members but I don't want to burden them with my problems. I have a therapist but they are going to be out of the office until mid November.
I realize I'm asking for answers to impossible questions but any advice on returning to normalcy in difficult times would be appreciated.