Some of my family and other people that I had in my life (notice past tense) either do not believe it is a real illness or just can't understand it. That is another difficult part of this and why I come to this page everyday. I have isolated myself, partly due to feeling shitty and the other piece is the lack of understanding and even people that have never heard of Long COVID. I know that isolating is not healthy and I am in school (online) so I am not completely isolated. I am in an internship that is hybrid, I work from home some and I go in about 12 hours a week. Those days are difficult as I am completely fatigued and feel terrible in the evening and then have the post exertion malaise when I wake up. I have that daily although some mornings are much worse than others.