This Coronavirus, is giving my anxiety an all you can eat buffet!

Hey fathers, welcome back, sorry it’s been over a week, but here I am pushing through. How many out there are struggling daily to get yourself going? I honestly feel like I am in Groundhogs Day (great movie, love Bill Murray), stuck on repeat with no escape…

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”

— Epictetus

To me this fidget spinner in motion sums up how I feel, it is this perpetual spin. I am testing new things and ways to cope and deal with everything, because “idle hands are the devil’s playground”. I have learned I need a morning walk so my dog and I while the family is asleep go on a 3-4 mile walk every morning around 5:30.

I have been trying to continue working out at home to keep stress off and help focus, but it isn’t always easy. Especially when my day starts at 8 am with meetings and pretty much is meetings until 5-6 pm, with sometimes a 30 minute or 1 hour gap there to try to do work. I am thankful to be working but Zoom fatigue is real.

On top of work, I have a family dealing with their issues and emotions as well, my wife has her struggles, so I have to stay strong to help her. My kids are just confused and anxious and are dealing with Cabin Fever. I know it is a delicate balance, but for my sanity I need things to open up, I just need to be able to go somewhere and get out.

What are you gentlemen doing to cope, are you finding anything useful and would recommend? I see all of these people getting hobbies, but hell I have no time during the week, once I am done with work its kids and wife, kids go to sleep, the wife needs another adult to talk to so she gets that time. So I have a small window on the weekend to where I can steal a few hours for me, any advice?

If any of you are dealing with anxiety or any other mental health issues, please speak to someone, write, talk, do something to help get it out, don’t keep it in. Here are a few links with help and advice. For me this is therapy as well as my walks, I need to steal time to keep writing.

Resources:

https://www.betterhelp.com/helpme/?utm_source=AdWords&utm_medium=Search_PPC_c&utm_term=%2Banxiety+%2Bhelp_b&utm_content=79452702164&network=g&placement=&target=&matchtype=b&utm_campaign=6482144837&ad_type=text&adposition=&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIs9ijmJCf6QIVGYrICh1gIQaGEAAYAyAAEgLATPD_BwE&not_found=1&gor=helpme

https://www.webmd.com/anxiety-panic/anxiety-tips#1