Too much safety giving me anxiety!!!

[Strongest123]

Hi everyone on here. I hope everyone had a Happy New year and is doing well. I haven’t posted in a while and I think it’s due time. Writing on here does give me the support and help I need, especially in these crazy uncertain times. I have OCD, and severe depression. I fell into a deep depression back in 2015. Anyway I have so much to post, but I want to post something that happened today. Now with everything that’s going on I’ve been trying to be as safe as I can be. Masks, distance, I am vaccinated but no booster. To make a long story short, I’m a single dad to a beautiful girl just 10 years old. Her mom and I get along well and we had a very smooth divorce. My daughters mom did get married and has a sin who’s autistic. He’s a cute little guy and I do care about him. Anyways my ex wife has been very very paranoid with everything that’s going on. And I can understand. Her dad, my daughters grandfather lives in the same house and he’s been pretty sick. He had severe diabetes and he did have open heart surgery back in September. And I know very well that his immune system is not the best right now due to his surgery. It’s only been a few months since surgery. My daughters mom has been very anal about masks, hand sanitizer, no public places and so on. Me being single, I tend to go out to a eat and of course I run errand, but today she kinda flipped out on me. My daughters had a bit of a sore throat since last night. No fever, nothing else but the sore throat. I did tell my daughters mom about the sore throat, but she didn’t think much of it cause my daughter didn’t have any other symptoms. Anyways later on today after I dropped her off my daughters mom calls me up berating me about my daughter, cause my daughter told her she didn’t cover her nose when she and I went to Walgreens the other day. So my ex was asking me why my daughter didn’t cover her nose while wearing her mask. I told her that she did have her mask on but I wasn’t checking to see if she covered her nose. Wow! She was going crazy on me, asking me why I didn’t check to see if her fave was fully covered!!! I told my ex that I try my best to keep my daughter safe as I can be. Well the conversation kept going on and on. I told her that I need to take care of my mental well being with everything that’s going on. A lot of people do not know how hard this whole pandemic has been on those with mental disease. My daughters mom can be a bit too much with all this craziness, and it can take a toll. I did tell her that, but she wouldn’t understand. Blessings to all while I try and calm down. SAMSON

[Agora1]

Strongest123, I think all of us are getting paranoid over this whole pandemic.This is making us short tempered and crazed. I'm sure that rationally she knows

how much you love your little girl and would never put her in harm's way.

It must be very difficult for you to be fighting your own demons while watching

out for the invisible virus out there.

At 10 years old, your daughter might not understand the seriousness of this all

but maybe you can remind her before you leave for the store to please make

sure her mask has covered her nose and mouth completely. Maybe this will take

a little of the strain off you.

These are very difficult times we live in. Believe me it's not any easier having an

older daughter who went out for New Year's Eve to a bar.

It sounds like this was a very emotionally distressing day for you.

Please calm down. You can't control what your wife says but only how you react

to it. Breathe, drop your shoulders down away from your ears and relaxxxx