This has been a year of crisis everywhere. Lockdown updates started to appear in Finnish social media in March, when the COVID-19 epidemic broke out in Finland. Radio, newspapers, and social media platforms offered spaces for citizens to discuss and document what it was like to be hit by disbelief—to stop, stay home, and distance. The crisis seemed to ask for textual and narrative structuring and witnessing. Some professional writers, such as journalists, collected stories they later published in books. The popular writer Saska Saarikoski offered her "diary in a state of emergency," Poikkeustilassa: Koronapäiväkirja, and another widely followed journalist, Annastiina Nykänen, published Yksin kotona, an account of living alone because of the pandemic but also because of recent deaths in the family. In addition to these publications, the Finnish Literary Society asked ordinary people to send in their stories to be preserved in the National Archive, inviting them to record their experiences of these extraordinary times to build the cultural memory of a nation in turmoil. These are just few glimpses, and my aim is not to cover the rich crisis testimonials of 2020, even though as I write this essay at the turn of 2021, the pandemic seems to be preoccupying the whole world. In this review I focus on the theme of secrets, traumas, and mental health crises in Finnish life writing in 2020.