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A Codependent’s Survival Guide Through A Mandated Quarantine
It isn’t rejection that’s isolating you, but a full-fledged pandemic.
“Codependency is a behavioral condition in a relationship where one person enables another person’s addiction, poor mental health, immaturity, irresponsibility, or under-achievement.”
Many of us are feeling particularly lost at this moment in time. There are a lot of unknowns and elusive messages we are trying to make sense of. Truth be told, no one really knows what’s to come with this virus and the reluctance to abide by the nation’s request to quarantine doesn’t seem to be helping much at all.
Teachers are now working entirely online, companies are cutting employee salaries, small businesses have had to close their doors, families are waiting to be reunited, retired living communities and nursing homes are under complete lockdown, and this could be just the beginning.
Reporters, researchers, medical professionals, and global personnel suspected the virus might make its way into the states; however, the reality of the situation is not a single one of us was ready for the magnitude of detriment this virus is offering to us as a nation and furthermore, a world.
