22 December

I feel that our ‘mental health’ (whatever that is) would be stronger if we stopped automatically assuming 2021 will be better than 2020. As if disasters are neatly wrapped in calendar years. This pandemic will be over when we understand it and fight it. Rather than keep clinging to our old lives and trying to get them back in the middle of a plague. We’ll get them back when we beat the plague. Our mental health problems are largely our refusal to accept the situation we’re in.