I'm 47 and just feeling so flat about life. I realise that I have relied on external distractions, events on the calendar, to feel like I am going forward in life and now with Covid-19, and normal life disappearing, I'm feeling like everything is hopeless. I just feel flat.
I have had clinical depression before and I don't quite feel there. I can get up and get dressed and do what needs to be done in the day and I can enjoy the company of my family and friends. But life feels meaningless and I feel - the best way to describe it - ungrounded.
I want to change my career or at least do something alongside my current job so I have a second source of income but I can't motivate myself to do anything with a long term outlook. Anyway, I've had this 'feeling' for the past year or two. I've 2 teens, so wondered if it were down to being needed less and me needing to find new things to fill my life, but whilst the idea of having my life back is an appealing thought, my thoughts generally, about what to do and what will make me happy, are foggy. It's like I need someone else to scoop me up and manage my life for me.
I have lots of symptoms to suggest I am in peri-menopause. What do you do about this flat feeling? How long does it last? Does it get worse?