How to snap out of it?

[JKDcot]

Just reaching out for advice and tips please. On paper everything is great, DH and I have reliable income, can afford our mortgage, have a healthy wonderful child and we are happy as a small family. But since lockdown ended and the world has gone back to normal, nothing had really changed for us? We don’t see friends and family like I remember we used to, work feels cold and structureless being at home the whole time. And I just feel trapped and like there’s nothing new to happen in life?

How do I snap out of it?

I'm sorry I don't have much advice to give, but to say that I completely understand, and I imagine there would be a lot of people that feel the same too. I guess it will be a while before anything feels really "normal" again.

Is there anything you can start that would make this time memorable for a good reason? Like an online course, start a hobby, a fitness group? Something to make work enjoyable again? I've been meaning to print off all our photos and also to start a journal for my daughter who never met my mum i have 5 kids though. Hope you feel better about things soon.

I feel like this a bit too. I think it’s the after effects of the pandemic and that it will just take a year or so to come out of it, well depending what happens next with covid of course.

First work out what would make you happy and then how you can carve out time to do it.

What would you do, right now, if you could choose anything at all?

Ditto here OP - feels weird at the moment.

Thanks for the kind messages
The real problem is a sense of apathy and lethargy and not really knowing what I want to do with my time anymore?! I have enjoyed the extra time home and not dashing about. But what do I want to do next seems to be so out of reach?
I think feeling like the joy of seeing friends and having fun to break up mundane work is what I’m missing most but I feel massive FOMO like I am not invited to anything anymore?!

Maybe everyone feels like this at the moment…

I'd start inviting friends or arranging to meet them.
Join all the clubs that were shut during the lockdown.

It makes a work day so much more pleasant, efficient and enjoyable at home when you having plans for later.

I barely spent any evening at home when I was in the office all day, the beauty of being home means everything gets done and I have all my free time back!

It's up to you to make the effort now. Since lockdown ended our family has made a proper effort to get out and do stuff. We've been out 3 times to the pub to watch live music, invited old friends round for dinner, had people here for bbqs and made an effort to eat out or sometimes in the evening to go out for an ice cream and watch the sun go down. It's a bit of an effort but it feels great.