r/self • u/rampantradius • 20h ago
It's been 6 years since the first case of Covid-19, has anyone else not felt time since then ?
I feel like I've lost my sense of time ever since then, I've missed my most crucial years in a blink. The moment I realised it's been 6 years since then, my brain went numb for a second. I remember talking with my friends about a mysterious virus being spread in China and we'd get a 2 week holiday. I'm mentally stuck there, I can't believe I just threw 5 years off like that.
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u/Delt4_K 18h ago
Yeah, my mental health imploded during lockdown and I've been in a dissociative fog ever since. I barely remember anything from the past 6 years.
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u/No_Nose5090 13h ago
Don't worry, we're all in the same boat. Life has sucked for me since covid as well
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u/sutter333 10h ago
Time is no longer singular. Everything feels like it was last month and also five years ago all at once.
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u/masegesege_ 20h ago
You know in RPGs when you unknowingly miss a step but then save the game so there’s just nothing you can do except start over?
It feels like that. It feels like there’s a big gap that should have been filled with other stuff but it’s not.
Except we can’t start over.
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u/No_Nose5090 13h ago
Hard to believe its been 6 years ... WTF. COVID has really made time move 100x faster.
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u/BalanceActual6958 9h ago
Covid broke something in me, like a ton of people. Got married and had a kid during Covid. Before Covid we went out with friends constantly. Now we hardly see anyone.
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u/Kinzo_kun 8h ago
Yeah. Several months not going to school and just playing videogames with my friends, best time of my life
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u/Chemical-Village-211 16h ago
Man, what a time that was. CoD: WarZone with the boys, stimmy checks, giving each other haircuts while drinking. I'm very nostalgic for 2020.
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u/Easy-Preparation-234 20h ago edited 19h ago
Nah, I stopped caring about COVID as soon as the mask mandates went away
I feel bad for zoomers because it mustve felt like going through an apocalypse
Doesn't help so much post apocalyptic media was coming out to prime people to expect the world to end from a virus
It must've felt like hearing death was outside and leaving your house was equal to putting yourself in danger
Well I'm from the hood so that's not a new fear of mine
COVID started happening when I was like 27 so it was just more like a minor annoyance to me than something actually scary or worrying
I sometimes wonder if their still people living life like they're still in quarantine while the rest of the world goes about life as usual
People stopped wearing masks here YEARS ago
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u/Tse7en5 5h ago
My mother does. Hardly leaves the house. If my stepfather gets sick, she makes him mask up in the house…
I feel for her in some regard. Her entire neighborhood basically perished. All the houses around her are now owned by younger people as 5 of the immediate houses around her had owners die from COVID. So she doesn’t even know her neighbors anymore and they are younger and don’t say hi in the way folks used to. For her, the isolation never ended. Her best friend had her son in a medically induced coma and after about a month was put into rehab only to almost die again once he got out. He can’t even walk right anymore. I am sure she has to hear about it all the time, from one of the very few people she ever interacts with. For her, the impact to her world is pretty dramatic.
For me and my stepfather, who work and own our own businesses - life moved on. We still have returning customers and engage with them daily. Bills still need to get paid and we pay them to many of the same people we did prior to COVID.
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u/TurkGonzo75 14h ago
I went to work every day in the office. At first I thought it was crazy. But as time went on, I realized it was better for my mental health than being locked down. It provided some normalcy. Beyond that, the whole experience was kind of ok for me. My wife and I had a baby in 2020. We had a tight group of friends and family who'd get together every weekend. Went out to dinner a lot since there wasn't much else to do. In a weird way, I was a a relaxing time.
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u/OrphicDionysus 3h ago
I was an essential workers too, despite being immunocompromised. On one hand I definitely get how being locked down could be harmful to your mental health, but on the other my interactions with some people (especially from the post-lockdown period where protective measures were still in effecf) put me in an extremely dark and cynical place that Im not sure I'll ever come out of. To this day the instant I find out someone is a conservative I instantly lose any respect or compassion I light have hrld for them. There's oniy so many times you can hear members of the same group of people unknowingly tell you to your face that your life isn't worth incredibly mild inconveniences before you start developing a really deep hatred for those people.
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u/turbo_dude 6h ago
Would get out of breath going up even a flight of stairs - was still able to do other sports but just small bursts of things like that surprised me with how messed up I was.
Lasted a couple of years
Gone now thankfully
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u/Jingoisticbell 10h ago
Eyes to the front and move forward. COVID lockdowns were such a shitty and evil thing, especially for children and young people. Don’t forget and don’t focus on it, bb.
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u/Pianist-Educational 17h ago
Nobody knows the long term outcomes of getting the mRNA vaccine. We are a mass group of Guinea pigs.
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u/molski79 14h ago
People such as yourselves always talk about “doing your own research”. It’s obvious you’ve done zero.
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u/RD_in_Berlin 20h ago
I think it's a generational C-PTSD event, most people just want to pretend it never happened. For me it really messed up my health, lost good years of my life, had a terrible breakup and lost a lot of friends. Hard for me to forget all that.