Describe this year

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Please describe the year you’ve had in under five words

Difficult. Grateful. Depressing. Grief. Never ending.

We were lucky with work for lockdown, compared to many. But teen dd was depressed as was dh. Then we lost MIL very recently.

Stressful, upsetting, revelatory, transformation

The year it all went wrong

Shielding
Hard
Loss
Friends
Art

Scary, trying, different and difficult

High anxiety, stripping right back

Difficult, boring, shit, and soul-destroying

Burned out in the NHS

WTF - seeing people is illegal.

Hard. Enlightening. Sad. Strong. Family

Welcomed my first baby 🥰

Not as bad as feared.

The 'gift' that keeps on giving! 😞😡

Fucked

It's not gone as bad as I had imagined but the uncertainty has given me anxiety and that's mainly to do with my business having to open and close and having no tourists, so mainly overthinking and stressing out for financial reasons has been shit.

Bizarre, lonely, stressful, worrying BUT appreciating

Unexpected, stressful, joyous, upside down, lonely

Sick and scared.

Awful. Cognitive dissonance in the extreme.

Can't see my disabled teenage DC but can teach 100s of kids.

Weird but OK. In limbo.

Grieving - lost FIL in Feb.
Anxious - lockdown in March
Devastation - husband had heart attack and surgery in May.
Relief - husband come and support of my 2 dear adult sons.
Hopeful - that next year must be better.

New job family time priorities.

Disbelieving, panicked, sheilding, adapting, hopeful.

Dystopian, uncertain, oppressive, boring, sad.

That said there was the odd glimmer of fun here and there.

Together, family, holidays
Anxiety, stress,

I enjoyed lockdown 1. We were all at home together, the weather was lovely, we got away to Devon in the summer... Since September I have felt more stressed and worried and I am very anxious about what is coming from January onwards.