 (Nick Galifianakis for The Post) | Dear Carolyn: I lost my mom in 2018 and 18 months later my dad, right at the start of covid, so I watched his funeral on an iPad. Then spent a year surviving the pandemic with school-age kids, a demanding job, and anxiety. Just got vaccinated and feel … no more hopeful. My favorite uncle died this week and I feel "intellectual sadness" — can't think of any other way to describe it — but haven't cried, not even when telling my kids or talking with my cousin. I think of my parents with a sense of vague sadness. I love my husband and can't think of anyone else I enjoy more, but when I think about my love for him, it feels intellectual versus visceral. My kids I love intensely but that's about the only emotion I seem to feel right now. For what it's worth, nobody can tell that I feel dead inside. I talk, I laugh, I work, I sing and dance with the kids, I make jokes, but deep down I'm untouched by it all. I know I'm utterly and completely burned out. Could that be it? Is this grief and trauma, and I just need to trust that my inner self will return? — I Feel … Hardly Anything |
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