Sustaining Mental Health During
Covid-19 With Clinical Simulation
KIM LAMONTAGNE
HealthySimultation.com Writing Team
Depression is the inability to move past negative thoughts. Depression strips one’s ability to see themselves as worthy. Depression steals happiness and exchanges it for heaviness, fear, shame, sleepless nights, and physical pain. Depression is like being alone at the bottom of a 300-foot dark well that is greased up with no ladder to climb out. You feel alone, unsafe, unseen, and scared. I remained alone at the bottom of the well with my intrusive thoughts for years. Completely isolated and anxious and still performed in the workplace. I hid behind email and skype to hide the intensity of my emotions.
At my worst:
- I withdrew and only spoke when necessary. That was a sign.
- I missed deadlines. That was a sign.
- I performed in a more isolated capacity and stopped reaching out to co-workers. That was a sign................
