Working from home during pandemic has affected my confidence

[Midlifelights]

I have worked at home since the start of lockdown while homeschooling 2 kids like many people. I am really starting to feel the impact on my own mental health- it’s massively affected my confidence and feeling that I am capable in work.

In normal times I am a confident & capable worker but being on my own for months shut away in my bedroom on zoom calls has made me feel so isolated and actually incompetent. I think I am prone to overthinking but this has just amplified my negative thinking etc.

Aibu? Has anyone else felt like this?

Yes me. I started off ok, both then I had to have two months off work after a major operation. I went back two weeks ago on a phased return and I feel like the new girl all over again. I'm usually a confident and capable person, but I'm missing being in the office and bouncing ideas off people. Google Meet just isn't the same. I'm holed up on a tiny desk in the spare room, it's quite dark, the desk is tiny and it's all just a bit shit really.
Coronavirus can piss off now. I just want things to get back to normal.

I can’t say YANBU enough

I was lying in bed last night worrying about work and the fact that I feel like I can’t do the job

Weirdly it’s actually made me feel the same as I did when my godmother suddenly died- the kind of ‘can’t cope’ with anything feeling that grief makes you feel- it’s so odd- I feel like I can’t do my job

It may change once your children are back at school. Try then to ensure you are out of the house for part of each day.

I was like this. I work in a school but they didn't call me in until the last week of term. I'm a single mum of three and hadn't spent any time with another adult for months. Those last few days in work I felt like I was new all over again and I've never felt so anxious to be round other people in my life. I'm getting nervous about going back in September not because of the virus but because I feel so out of the whole routine of work.

I enjoy working from home but I’m sick of the passive aggressive emails people send. Or maybe that’s just my organisation where people are really hard work! Argh!