The last two months have been monumentally hard for me. Right around the time my husband came out of his funk, I was heading into my own. I was depressed, but more than that I was angry. I was pissed off at the world – pissed off at humanity.
People I didn’t know just had to look at me wrong to set me off. I ignored friends’ texts and even deactivated my Facebook account because I felt like everyone around me was suffocating me.
I decided to take some time off from being social and just focus on me and my family. I made a point to exercise about an hour a day and focus on my studies. It took a few weeks for me to start feeling somewhat better and nearly a month to start feeling like myself again.
In retrospect, it was probably more about stress than the people around me. I had just reached my limit and needed time to unplug. Now that I’ve completed my degree, I feel like a huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders and I’m ready to get back to reality – to join the world and be social again.
