Gathering my last bit of energy of the day cause my therapist asked me to journal

I wonder the amount of anxiety a brain can take before literally bursting into flames. There must be a physical thing that happens, right?

Stupid thing to keep telling yourself “just get through the day, nothing lasts, it will get better tomorrow” when things literally keeps getting worse, and worse, and worse every week.

Useless thing to keep telling yourself “everyone makes mistakes, you’re doing your best” when you pay triple for every bad decision you make.

I’ve been mentally self-mutilating for many weeks because of all my many mistakes at work, and because of the sick leaves I had to take to wait for COVID test results because something was hurting.

Today, every little mistake I made at the office for the past few days came straight back to my face. I had to take every little consequence of my weak, slow, bizarre, dysfunctionning intellect. People got mad and I had to keep a straight face through feeling like a worthless piece of shit all day. I was so sad, ashamed, anxious and terrified that my senses felt literally numb at many points through the day. I felt like I might faint or not respond.

And right now, my friend told me by text that someone who was at the ONLY gathering I accepted lately was positive for COVID. We were very close and have been speaking a lot that night. So that’s one more sick leave pending, possibly for two whole weeks, and for the most shameful reason there is nowadays. All by my fault. I literally can’t make one bad decision amongst all the good ones. I’m literally numb to the bone.

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August 18, 2020

this is gonna sound like horrible advice and you might block me but dont get tested again unless you feel symptoms, and yes i know some ppl are asymptomatic. Also, if you are gonna get tested, get the antibodies test. Or else literally right after they test you, and your negative, 2 weeks missed at work, and you can get it literally within the next hour. Your covid friend most likely got it from someone else, some place else. Just remind yourself that murphys law does not apply to your life and then maybe it wont? Manifest it! At least thats what the crystal loving hippies say. Good luck.

August 20, 2020

@icanttypewithnails

I’m not gonna block someone who tries to help ^^ Well to give you an update, with everything considered including how low the hospitalized/ill people ratio has become in france (the virus sort of got weaker) I still went to work and did my best to be cautious. Then I ended up getting a negative test result. But today my friend told me that I took it way too soon for it to be real results and that everyone was self-isolating except me. I kind of knew it somewhere in my head, I stayed in denial so I could continue working on my tasks because I was terrified of disappointing people. Now I feel really awful. I went to the toilet a few times and probably infected them. The dude who sold me a sandwitch took my credit card off of my hand and I froze and couldn’t say anything. I have all of those flashbacks lol.

So while your logic makes perfect sense, the fact that I had the knowledge of being at risk is what makes everything feel awful.