I live with my parents and two sisters, I'm early 20s.
I have a health condition that makes me high risk for COVID so I have been very cautious during the last 6 months. Cases are rising in my area so the last two weeks I have started to be much more cautious.
I feel so frustrated with my family as they laugh at me for being anxious. I don't think anything I am doing or expect my family to do is over the top, everything I do is what is recommended in the guidelines. If I answer the door to them when they return home I ask them if they could wash their hands and they all think that that is a ridiculous, neurotic thing to ask and they laugh at me for it.
However today I just completely broke down in tears and I feel so helpless and frustrated. There have been a few positive cases in my sister's friendship group but she had not been in recent close contact with them. However today she started to feel unwell and rather than tell me she decided to sit with me and watch a film and then tell me afterwards that she wasn't feeling well? The symptoms are minor but I am worried that they may be the beginning of COVID as like I said it's circulating in her friendship group. I feel so frustrated with the carelessness of it and none of my family members agree with me for feeling stressed and anxious about it. Then I asked my parents if she could use a seperate bathroom to everyone else in case she develops COVID symptoms and they all said I was being ridiculous and over-the-top.
Nobody in my family understands why I am anxious. They think because I am young and my underlying health condition isn't visible that I am not high risk.
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COVID has shown me how little my family care about me
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anonnposter · 13/09/2020 20:31
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