I’ve never posted about my mental health issues anywhere before. Always just suffered them in silence or made them into a joke so others wouldn’t see how bad they were. The anxiety has been getting worse lately and nothing seems to be helping. My symptoms were always manageable until this last year when my dad got sick. He spent months on the brink of death, followed by more months in various medical facilities trying to recover, eventually living with me for a couple before he was well enough to go home. Despite being stressful in itself, the whole experience was very isolating. My husband and son were and are very supportive, but everyone else I thought I had kind of disappeared. I was just asked to step down from a volunteer board that I was on because of my “missed deadlines” last year. I honestly don’t know what to think or how to get out of this hole of loneliness and isolation I’m left in.