Who else feels like the fallout from coronavirus has caused their mental health to plummet? Am I overreacting or alone?

My wife & myself have been having an awful time in waves. Wonderful and relaxing one day, and the next is a total feeling of helplessness. Like we have control over nothing. Lucky enough to be able to work from home, but the impending doom and all the certain human loss weighs on us both more than we had ever imagined. Especially people in our community who are furthering the problem, nothing we can do about it. I am normally an absolute gym rat. Without that I am a mess. This is hard. We are working through it, looking at numbers makes it worse, because the reality is quite grim if you are OK at processing data. Its not that bad I tell myself, because we are incredibly lucky to still have an income, and be safe. But I can see the loss of life happening as a result of absolute negligence from our federal government. Ive never been more afraid of our inept leadership. Focus on the WONDERFUL things that are happening, and all of the love and support from humans with nothing to gain. The truth is we are beautiful, and we are showing it. Don't let the outliers drag down your perception of the beauty of humanity. Now Ill do my best to take my own advice.

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