Adjusting to this Quarantine





Adjusting to this Quarantine

Today was a particularly stressful day as I tried to prepare for the extremely long day tomorrow. I was supposed to get my brother to work at 8:00 am and then take my mother to her appointment in Scottsdale at 9:30 am and I have an exam tomorrow and a group assignment due at midnight. I also have a paper due on Friday, so I feel very overwhelmed. I like being ahead in my classes or at least most of them. I feel it is hard to because most of the classes are changing assignments to accommodate the inability to perform the previously made assignments, like a lab experiment.


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I have a lot of stress right now, I talked to my girlfriend and I feel better to an extent. Just have to breathe and take things one at a time. I would love to go on walks more but I feel like with my family needing help it makes me focus on them instead of myself. I think this is because I am a people pleaser and this is especially so with my family. 
I feel that in the beginning I was adjusting very well, but because I have tried to take the guidelines of the quarantine seriously it has taken a toll on me mentally. It mainly effected me today, the other days have been good, I think it just accumulated and hit me hard. I knew it was going to at some point, but I didn't realize how quick and how hard it would effect me. 

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