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This is why my life will never be the same.

This is why my life will never be the same.

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We started a new animated story format. This story animated was submitted by a loyal fan of Psych2go and we were able to turn this story into this short animated film for you guys. The Pandemic COVID 19 changed everyone's life. The pandemic drastically changed my mental health and mental well-being. My life is never going to be the same after the pandemic. Here's why. How has the pandemic affected your life? Do you want to see more stories like this?
Date: 2023-08-20

Comments and reviews: 25


im gonna be completely honest. this is so relatable for me.
my life before the pandemic was, at least i thought, pretty good. i was doing very well in school, was fit and active in sports, had friends, and, overall, was happy. when the pandemic struck, i still tried to connect with my friends, but i had a wide mix of friends who were really all connected by me, and weren't too close with each other, so it wasnt much of a friend group. because of this, we didn't share many interests as a group, and because we couldnt see each other irl, we started to drift apart. i started to have less and less motivation for doing things i enjoyed, such as reading, soccer, and even school. my grades started to slip, my mental and physical health deteriorated, and even though i got added to a groupchat of people from my new middle school, socializing with people i didnt even really know that well didn't help. for the first time in my life, i was alone. and it wasn't until 2021 did i really start to see it. my firsr semester at my new school was awful. i struggled to pay attention in class & kept getting distracted when i was supposed to be listening to the teacher or doing homework. my grades dropped and dropped, and even though i was doing pretty decently in school, i felt like i wasn't enough. i fell into a state of depression, and couldn't reach out or talk to anyone about it. my mom took notice of my strange moods and behaviors, and scheduled an therapy appointment therapy appointment for me. my therapist and i spoke to each other for about two months, but they really werent very helpful, so i ended up just cancelling the next appointments. during this time, school was going back to in person for the final two months of the year, but when i walked into the school i had never even seen before, a massive wave of anxiety came crashing down on me. I knew practically no one, none of my old friends who were there talked to me, and i felt too anxious and shy to talk to anyone. i became even more depressed and it carried on into the summer and the next school year. I had still been talking to my online friends at the school, but none of them decided to return that year, and i eventually just left all servers and groupchats i was in, and isolated myself. for 4 months. it wasnt until october that i picked up the courage to try to talk to them again. luckily for me, they let me back in, which i was very grateful for. i had started going to a different therapist, who was really good and helped me a lot. i still struggle with anxiety and bouts of depression here and there, but ive been trying to suppress those emotions and try to acknowledge the fact that they aren't true, and that my mind just wants me to believe those things. if you are struggling with similar issues, know this: you are not alone. your mind is a deceiving creature, and although you want to believe it because it's you, it implants thoughts into yourself that you can't get rid of by just thinking positively, and manipulates your emotions to the point where all you want is to just die and end it all. but those thoughts can't hurt you- theyre just thoughts, after all. they are menacing and scary, and you are constantly in a tug of war battle with them every time you think and feel them, and you can't win it with just pure strength. the only way to do it is to give up trying to fight it - just drop the rope. acknowledge them, and let them move on. if you don't pay any attention to them, they can't hurt you. youre safe. youre valued. and most importantly, youre loved. you may not even know it, but trust me, youre loved. your are strong, important, and worth everything in the world. you were put on this earth to live, and that is your purpose. i love you, and i wish you the best of luck in your life. you can do this!

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Worse than now
2020 was my best year in a while, no one in my family passed, in 2019 it was my Best friend, 2018 was my disabled twin, so I felt more free and happy, then 2021 came and while everyone else wished for a better year I was hoping for a just as good year, but my mom passed, I became emotionless, my cousin's asked if I wanted anything, I said I wanted nothing, that event shook me up a lot and almost caused me to off myself cause my fears had happened so I didn't know why I had a will but then I made an online friend, MC (the real name was to long to remember) as they called themselves back then and taught them how to play fortnite, later on I made more online friends and they asked if they wanted to see my creative world (it was race 777, they said it was the best race they played on and it made me happy that I made my friends happy, I went to Disneyland for the first time for my birthday, I finally got to do the thing I've always wanted to do since I was 8 but couldn't, and I got a lightsaber (that turned red for a second the first time I turned it on then back to blue lol, the next day we went to the beach and while I was happy I felt a little empty though caused Ryan and my mom weren't there on the beach sitting by me and watching the waves, when school started I felt weird, cause normally I'd sit with my mom during lunch (she was a teacher for the disabled at that school) but over those months without my mom I've somehow made some amazing comebacks that surprised the whole class, and onetime when we had free time I started singing we shall sail together, when I started everyone was having their own conversations, but when I opened my eyes everyone was starring at me, one dude even recorded me, they all told me I sang very well and some asked when was my next concert which made me have confidence in myself for the first time. All in all despite the ups and downs of these 2 years, things have been getting better for me

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This is weird, but I come from something opposite
To me - school was my prison, I met my first real friends online and forged a friendship that moved over to the analog world. To me, the pandemic would be something that would have saved me a lot of pain in my school years. But in the end.
Luckily Uni wasn't like that, but being around people is hard for me. Finishing Uni collided with the pandemic though and when I graduated, I found myself unemployed for nearly 2 years, I had a hard time and lack of work didn't help at all, it feels like these years just disappeared out of my life. I did enjoy my time playing tabletops, watching series or listening to books, but I wasn't doing nearly anything productive. At some point, I had given up looking for a job. When the restrictions eased up, it turned out that I was either under or overqualifed. The worst part was being told no as a visually impaired person when I knew I could do the job well.
I found a good job, and one I liked. And thanks to pandemic, I am working from home, in an enviroument that's safe for me. I even get to do a bit of animation here and there (If Psych2go team is reading, I'd like to animate part time for you guys one day, and as someone with no artistic education, I get to learn in practice and gather valuable experience. BUT - I am happy that we are closer than further from actuallly reclaiming some sence of normalcy, I dread the day I will have to work from the office. I can't focus around people. I don't feel comfortable around lots and lots of people I barely know. It might get easier overtime but the sheer thought of not being able to work in peace with a friend or two is daunting.
Every coin has two sides and one is usually different from the other. Something exciting and great for one person can be a burden to another and vice versa. Never forget that, dear reader. The best we can do is try and use our lemons in one way or another.

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I can definitely feel the scar too. though I know my health anxiety is irrational. But I know I can overcome my worries about going outside, it's not like I haven't done so at all in the past three years, just that when I do, I'm very (too) conscious of my surroundings. Other than that, I feel like spending so much time by myself has helped me to figure out what I want to do in the future, I feel fairly confident about who I want to be. Am I saying I'm grateful for the pandemic because it helped me personally by giving me time to reflect or whatever? No, I think that would be disrespectful to the people who endured suffering incomparable to mine, particularly those who lost loved ones. I just think I've learnt to accept things the way they are and not let thoughts of how things could have been different consume me. Not just the pandemic, just suffering and negative experiences in general. Would it be better to just not live? Well, I personally am starting to take a certain saying to heart. what you see is what you get. Life can be good. Life can be bad. There are things we can change. There are things we can't. Maybe my perspective is due to privilege. But I just believe that it's always worth it to carry on.
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I am a 20 years old male from Germany and notice that many people of about my age withdraw back in their families a lot. Things one usually does with friends now only happen in the family like going to the pub with brothers and sisters, going to the cinema or swimbath with just the parents, going on long vacation with thr family, spending weekends and holidays at different grand parents. After class or university, people spent lot of time with each other, nowadays everybody directly heads back home. Social gatgerings like Christmas or New Year's Eve turned to events with just close family and without friends. Hopefully this will change again by spring or autumn, otherwise I will have to spend a live alone as an extrovert. I do have family of course, but I pull my energy from gatherings with friends.
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Before Pandemic:
- Healthy Sleep Schedule
- BMI falls to normal
- Planned Course
- Handful of friends
- Strong physique and body
- Strong motivation
- Privilege to go out, travel and do fun things
- Getting sunlight everyday
During Pandemic:
- 2-6 hrs of sleep every night
- Failed a year of school
- Went Obese
- Lost the bond with all my friends
- Weird OCD onset
- Overwhelming homeworks
- Body is too weak to do heavy work
- Lost all motivation, hope and faith in humanity
- Stranded in my house for 2 years straight and unable to get sunlight
Conclusion: There's no such thing as 'better days' like 2pac said.

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I've always been a great student. At a certain point in the pandemic though, I starting skipping classes, tests, responsibilities at home, everything. Then I bounced back once my parents noticed and I improved my environment, but I still feel the effects. For example, if I take a break, I feel like I'm wasting time and I need to be working, otherwise I'm lazy, and I'll fall off again. I feel guilty for any bad grade or missed opportunity to the point where I relapse on sh. Then comes more guilt. My mindset on academics will never be the same, and even when I'm doing well, I'm carrying a heavy cross mentally. Anyway, you're not alone, and we're all in this together
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The pandemic made me a different person and not in a good way. It made an already pretty introverted kids introversion even worse. I become selfish, angry, anxious, and depressed. I messed up hard and ostracized myself from some friends and Ive never fully forgiven myself. This brings us to today. Im on the verge of failing chemistry and algebra 2 because I cant focus for more than five seconds. Funny enough besides those two classes I have all As. I have a massive chemistry test on Monday, and if I fail then the my school is going to kick me out of sports, the one place where I can bring out the old me. The better me. Im terrified. Any advice anyone?
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No offense but I kinda loved lock down
To me, an introvert it helped me alot to get my life back together
And well, Im a very private person so I dont really need to share a lot
As for my friends. I cant help but say this, even if it sounds hella selfish-
I enjoyed the fact they no longer needed me to always be there for them, its draining for me when they just use me as an outlet for everything and share their life story with me. I dont feel guilty, because the pandemic is one of the happiest periods of my life, to bad it ended so soon.

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I kinda feel bad because that's not how I feel. I don't mind wearing a mask, the sanitizing. I don't mind working from home and I don't wanna go back to the office 3 days a week and spend time with people who doesn't actually matter to me. I'm not afraid to go out, to the movies or a shopping mall - with people I like! But I don't want my old life back: the constant haste and feeling I'm late. The constant feeling I need to be somewhere, be on time, catching a bus, etc. I like my new and calm life.
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The pandemic hardly affected me when it hit because Im sheltered. And only recently its started affecting me, because now theres even less ways for me to get any real social interaction. Im suffering through some kind of depression, and I am very confused about life atm. Im not sure where its going to go. I cant really relate to anyone else on a lot of levels. I dont know why I typed this here, but I guess I just wanted to scream another helpless cry into the void
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I wrote my English 101 essay on my experience, which was kinda like this one. Its a mess that no longer needs to be pondered on. Still have a little bit of recovering to do, as my very negative mental health also led me to leave a best friend for pretty complicated reasons. Might not be possible to see them again, unfortunately, but at least I found my way out of stressful defeat, right? Everything will be alright in the end, right?
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Lockdown happened right after I finished my internship, I went from very very busy to so free that I slept all day. First week was great, then the world became dull, the house became unbearable, especially with EVERYONE home. No school, no work, no friends to hang out with, people constantly getting on each others nerves at home. Everyone was more frustrated than ever.
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For me it was the actual opposite. I was being socially bullied (like ignored, left out, gossiped over) over years during school. During the pandemic I could stay home which was always my safe space. Just not being in that toxic environment anymore helped me so much with my mental health and my grades started getting up. Did anyone experience something like this too?
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Between 2011 and 2018, I was stuck in a house mostly alone with my deteriorating grandparents. I felt a lot of what you described here. I was neglected while watching my grandfather fall to Alzheimer's and my grandmother slowly deteriorate from dementia, as her heart valves failed one by one. It was a nightmare and I don't think I would wish it on my worst enemy.
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that's so weird, for me it was the complete opposite, I loved lockdown, it was the happiest I'd been in a long time.
I loved learning but school was stressful, I didn't get really good grades or have many friends, with it all academic and social pressures gone I finally felt like I could breathe, 2020 was pretty much the best year of my life if i'm honest.

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I too would like to share my story before and after the pandemic and lockdown. It's pretty similar to this video. Only I was not allowed to talk to the friends I always had and ended up loosing almost every friend I had ever made till then. And all this things combined pushed me to do really scary things that I still don't trust myself to keep myself safe.
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Man I was a complete mess before the pandemic. Seeing me lose everything I looked forward to made me feel just as powerless as the person in this video. But one day, something just lit a fire in me. I started working on myself, getting my mind right, just becoming a better person. As of now, Im not where I want to be but Im nowhere near where I used to be.
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Before the pandemic life was hard for me, I was sucidal and my parents tried their best to hide all the things that can trigger me to commit sucide, surprisingly in the year 2021 I felt much more better I got a lot of help and felt more happy I am still recovering but if you are having suicidal thoughts please call the suicide hotline it will help: )
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As a weeb lockdown never hurt me, infact i was good experience for me
May be it's just me, but lockdown actually made me enjoy my life, before lockdown it was hell for me, study, going to coaching 10hrs a day, not getting relaxing time it was painful
May be it's just me but lockdown improved my life.

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I had won a geography contest and was selected by the state to travel to the capital and compete in the state championship. All that was announced over the period of 4-0 days before my county declared a state of emergency and locked down.
Timing sure likes to play games, doesnt it?

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My life barely changed. Before the pandemic, I had terrible chronic pain. Slept a lot of the day, was pretty much a recluse. The pandemic changed pretty much nothing for me. I had been unintentionally practising for it for 5 years. Yay, for no social life, I guess.
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I'm an introvert, I mostly worked from home before the pandemic & was mostly by myself as I went about doing daily errands such as grocery shopping, etc. The pandemic caused very little disruption to my life & daily routine, so I'm one of the lucky few.
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It's especially hard for me because I have got Corona and was hospitalized and I also lost alot of my loved ones. Too much for me to handle. They all died because of me
Still depressed and traumatized, idk how I can ever heal

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I dodged a bullet with a toxic relationship. I have actually had time to heal from what was happening and improved some things bc there's not distractions to take my mind off thinking things through enough.
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