My perspective is colored by experience and, well, my viewpoint as someone with Borderline Personality Disorder (which has some similarities to Bipolar and PTSD, among other things, enough that they get confused for one another) and with anxiety disorder. And psychosis, too. So take from this what you will.
My experience, and I’ve seen this mirrored with some other people who struggle with mental health, is that when things are extra stressful, all of that makes a whole lot of “noise” and you’ll feel abandoned. If you can normally see spirits, you won’t see them. If you can normally “hear” spirits, you won’t. You’ll overlook signs, or see signs that aren’t there that confirm your worst fears because your anxiety will be ramped up because you’ll be weirded out by the fact that you want reassurance and that sense of the gods being present just isn’t there.
What I’ve always done is realize that it’s unlikely I just got abandoned (unless I have a good, solid reason to suspect I’ve pissed a god off, like breaking a specific oath that I remember or something), that it’s just a normal swing of bad luck, and concentrate first and foremost on self-care and doing what work I, personally, can take care of, one step at a time. It’s really disconcerting to feel that the gods aren’t there, but it’s more likely that you’re just so stressed out that that static noise is completely drowning out your normal sense. They’re there, you are just having trouble perceiving it. Keep talking to them, keep asking for help, but also work to help yourself. When you feel a bit calmer, your sense of presence should come back.
