{"id":20667,"date":"2021-02-25T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=20667"},"modified":"2021-02-24T09:38:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T17:38:29","slug":"an-inside-voice-handling-the-hard-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2021\/02\/25\/an-inside-voice-handling-the-hard-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"An Inside Voice<\/em>: Handling the hard stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing we hear constantly over the radio, over the news, through any type of media soundbite that crosses our rather constricted paths this past year is talk of mental health. It’s COVID fatigue\u2014people have been walking the same lines now for a year, whether it be the arrows pointing us down which way to follow the aisles in a grocery store; the two-metre separation mark at the line-ups at Costco or Winners; the waiting one by one in a line-up to go up an elevator\u2026 We are all still succumbing to these rules but the layers of strength are starting to wane, and sooner or later, if even more support isn\u2019t offered to students and staff at Camosun (how about support groups for both?), I’m worried that the proverbial student body\u2019s knees will buckle and there may be some real problems to clean up.<\/p>\n

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An Inside Voice<\/em> is a column discussing what it’s like to be taking online classes (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

COVID fatigue is real, and everybody\u2019s dealing with it, although the courage and tenacity that I see in my fellow beings never ceases to astonish me. Of course, now that we are fighting COVID, the vaccines are delayed, and there are newer and scarier variants of the virus out there. I picture them looking like gremlins, although harder to kill (blender, anyone?). But green COVID monsters aside, what about the real sadness that is going to happen and how do we cope when we don\u2019t have our campus and classmates to offer support?<\/p>\n

My father died last week. I knew it would happen sometime soon, but I didn’t have my campus to go to, my campus where being able to carry on and breathe the air while walking up the stairs to the Young Building would be incredibly cathartic. I couldn\u2019t go to my prof\u2019s office and tell them the reason I fell asleep at the beginning of class was because I was grieving; I can\u2019t go to By the Books and not even have to say anything to my favourite barista because she would have seen it in my eyes that something terrible was wrong. We are all going to go through these personal tragedies, and now it feels like we are going through them on our own. We have none of our old ways of seeking support, and it feels inadequate; empty. Our bubbles are lonely and not full of the kind of support we would find if campus were open.<\/p>\n

We have to be stronger on our own, moreso than we ever have before. We still have virtual connection with our fellow students, but that isn\u2019t the same as a group of friends surrounding you when you are hurting. All we can do is just seek support with what we have, turn in our work on time, and know that someday we will be telling this story to someone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One thing we hear constantly over the radio, over the news, through any type of media soundbite that crosses our rather constricted paths this past year is talk of mental health. It’s COVID fatigue\u2014people have been walking the same lines now for a year, whether it be the arrows pointing us down which way to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20675,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20667\/revisions\/20675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}