Isolation
Year 12 Support
How to cope with COVID_19 as a 2020 Year 12 Finding stability in an uncertain world
It is a year that is planned down to the most minute detail by thousands of young people. The culmination of all the hard work; every long and tedious bus trip, every heartbreaking social incident, every clash with that teacher who ‘just doesn’t like’ you.This year makes it all worth it.
Yes, it will be difficult: endless school-
Firstly, accept your emotions as valid.
based assessments, the dreaded three-
Your feelings are uniquely yours and you
hour English exam and a careers officer
are allowed to feel them. There is no
who kindly refuses to take ‘GAP year’ as a
correct way to feel. Your feelings are
suitable goal. Not to mention a
signals that are purposely guiding you.
succession of VIP 18th birthday parties,
They should not be labelled good nor
passing (or failing) your driver’s license
bad, all are valid.Overwhelmingly, most
and the inevitable demise of so many
feel some form of grief. Recognise that
high-school romances.But it is worth it. It
this can be grief for that which is lost but
is a hot sticky mess and one of the best
also grief for that which is still to come.
years of your life, relived forevermore with
We can be grieving the demise of
hysterical laughter with the people who
opportunities and situations in a world
were there.
that we no longer recognise, but at the same time anticipatory grief is the
But can it still be thus?
apprehension of what is to come. It is difficult to plan an academic year the
So what should young people do now?
government itself cannot define.
