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Masking Fatigue - Back into the "real world"

Novusalopian
over 3 years ago

Hi all,

I have a very customer-facing job, and pre-lockdown was able to mask whilst at work fairly successfully, though it was exhausting at times. I have the advantage of spending a lot of the day by myself as well, and so was able to use this time to "recharge" before going back into the customer-facing environment. Over lockdown my role has been predominantly at home doing meetings over Skype/Zoom/Teams etc., but now that I'm working face-to-face more and more I feel like I've regressed massively. Masking seems to take orders of magnitude more effort than it did before lockdown. I realise that this could probably be put down to lack of practise, but it is concerning me.

Has anyone else had this experience? Please tell me it's not just me...

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  • over 3 years ago

    I haven't had it with work, as I work from home, but the few face-to-face social interactions I've had with friends since the pandemic began have been utterly exhausting. I also had to attend a hospital appointment the other week about face pains, it wasn't anything particularly hard or worrying, but I came back from it completely physically, mentally and emotionally spent, and stayed that way for a couple of days.

    I wonder if masking is a little like exercise, if you get out of the habit of it, it'll take you a while to build up the same stamina as you had before? 

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  • over 3 years ago

    I haven't had it with work, as I work from home, but the few face-to-face social interactions I've had with friends since the pandemic began have been utterly exhausting. I also had to attend a hospital appointment the other week about face pains, it wasn't anything particularly hard or worrying, but I came back from it completely physically, mentally and emotionally spent, and stayed that way for a couple of days.

    I wonder if masking is a little like exercise, if you get out of the habit of it, it'll take you a while to build up the same stamina as you had before? 

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