For me I’ve always thought of myself as introverted, but at least since mid high-school i’ve been acting pretty extroverted. I find all of this is nice in a way: not having to interact with so many people every day and all.
I get the silver lining part. I’m the opposite in that I get no alone time now as my son isn’t going to school and my husband is working from home. So we’re basically together 24/7. But the benefits have been that we’re getting so much time together as a family we wouldn’t normally. Especially my husband and son. Usually during the week, my husband is up and away to get the train at 6.30am and not home until 7pm. But during lockdown he’s not been logging in to his system till 9am, so in the morning they go out on their bikes together. And at the end of the day he’s out his little room earlier at night. Plus he joins us for lunch and dinner every day. We’ve also had several major Spring cleans and gotten rid of a lot of clutter and sorted a few unfinished jobs around the house. I’m pregnant with our second and it’s been good for my son to soak up extra time with me before the baby arrives. I do miss my “me” time, but on the whole it’s not been that bad. I’m a little anxious about leaving our little bubble now to go into hospital, but just hoping that we’ll avoid catching anything.
I guess that would make sense for introverts, extroverts on the other hand…
Its not the isolation for me because my state is still pretty open. For me it’s being out if school.
The dissociation was bad briefly, because it was truly hard to imagine that anything was real. School while in quarantine with family was hard because no motivation plus familial obligations.
But now that all that is over, and I’m tackling a list of things I actually want to do and learn, it feels really nice. I’m realizing I do really well if I create structure for myself and am productive on my own terms. My anxiety is better.
On the downside, it makes me not look forward to the end of quarantine….