Do you think Brexit has affected your mental health?

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Was discussing in the car with my partner yesterday about how I feel like Brexit is a constant low level source of anxiety and depression for me. The uncertainty, the lack of clear positives, it just feels like there is no light at the end of the tunnel and I have no control over it.
Just wondered if other people felt the same way? That it's actually having a negative effect on their mental health?

I don't think it has mine, but I feel as if I am one of the few it hasn't. But I don't need regular medication, have no mortgage anymore, and live in a reasonably wealthy area.

if they want to work in Europe any decent company will get them a visa - this isn’t true. Big companies with lots of money may be able to, and prove that the applicant has skills that aren’t available anywhere in the EU, but smaller, less wealthy companies won’t do this. My DD has a job offer where the offer specifically said EU passport holders only, and this is for a highly skilled, many years of training job.

No.

My mh is shit anyway, but this definitely is not helping!

I'm disabled and on benefits and so money is already tight, I'm also on medication that is dangerous to stop cold turkey but which - as yet I'm hoping it will change soon - dr isn't allowed to prescribe enough to let me create even a small stockpile of.

I'm also worried for the people of NI and because I live on the west coast of Scotland and we still anyway have the nonsense that is orange marches etc and if it DOES kick off in NI it's likely to kick off here too. I think people either are too young to remember the height of the troubles and/or too ill educated on them to realise/remember that they affected us here England, Scotland and Wales too.

"I think we’re heading for a recession" we're already in a recession, I think we're headed for a depression.

It's been an utter farce from the beginning - with ZERO explanation of what leave even meant! Then triggering art 50 before even ascertaining the possible consequences, complete Fucking disaster all round!!

And yes VERY embarrassing, I've quite a few family/friends that now live outside the uk, some in other European countries, some in North America, New Zealand, Asia - ALL are saying that the overwhelming attitude to our doing this is basically "are they insane?! Why?!" Initially and then "wow! They're making a complete mess of handling it even now!"

Quite, Graphista. And after my recent holiday where the behaviour of some British actually made me feel ashamed to be from the same country, I feel that even more. I no longer love my country which is horrible. I remember coming back from France on the ferry as a teen in the 80s and seeing the white cliffs of Dover and more or less thinking “aaah, England! My England!”

Now I just think “aah, a return to the shitshow that is our country at the moment.”

On the other hand, we watch with derision how the US voted in Trump. It’s just the same thing here. We are being watched, and laughed at.

No wonder they’re bringing Spitting Image back.

But I don’t know how much my age (mid 40s) affects things. I do feel a bit “grumpy old woman” about a lot of things anyway so maybe younger people are taking Brexit in their stride??

I no longer love my country which is horrible

Agree

Previous generations lived with incurable epidemics (the Black Death for one!)

You mean the one that 2/3 of the population in Europe did not survive ?

Well there's the next slogan for that bus: "Brexit: not quite as bad as the Black Death, so stop moaning".

Curlyhairedassassin

What's really shocking is how BEYOND parody we are!

I'm on several Facebook groups/pages, and watch certain tv shoes and listen to certain radio shows that relate to brexit, politics generally, UC and some humorous ones that address such topics...

Increasingly they're sharing posts and news stories with caveats of "no this is real and not a joke"!

The things that are actually happening are THAT outlandish and ridiculous!

tbf, Brexit itself isn't getting me down.
But the intransigent logic of BeLeavers... & divisiveness of whole situation gets me a bit down. My feeling of powerlessness, and the clear impression that things will get much worse before they get better aren't helpful.

Just the whole alienated set of feelings that have arisen. I obviously have very little in common with huge majority of the population.

No.
I want to change jobs and accept it might be trickier which is stressful.. But crap jobs will still be available so I might have to go back to those rather than the overpaid number I am currently in.I work with people who feel their salary for what they do was fine. But they are seriously taking the piss and their attitude is “well this is what I’m worth” rather than what the job is worth.

I don’t feel any less European for leaving the EU. We still have a shared history going back hundreds of years.

Yes, it's affected my mental health because it will affect my actual life, especially No Deal. At least with a shitty deal there would be some sort of withdrawal period first, during which I could hopefully sort my life out:/

Watching the TV this morning, the interviewer asked a Leaver political commentator what the short-term benefits of a No Deal Brexit would be, and all they could answer was 'Liberation'. Oh, great, so when we're in the middle of a recession, with our trade deals and freedom of movement lost and the NHS being sold off, at least we can console ourselves with that.

@longwayoff you couldn’t have picked a more fitting user name for that ridiculous post.

Yes, because I live in NI and am petrified, absolutely fucking petrified, of returning to some of the violence of our past. I grew up in an area very badly affected by the Troubles, I saw shootings and heard bombings and I almost start to retch at the thought of a return to that. And for what? We're a fucking afterthought to a lot of GB, frequently being blamed for the holy mess that is Brexit, when in reality GB is to blame for our history.

Anyway, the shorter answer is yes, I've had to have periods away from social media and news in the last couple of years due to the rising anxiety Brexit causes for me.

Yes in a low level constant anxiety and frustration sort of way.

Have just read tonight that the Labour Party would not support a government of national unity in the event of a no confidence vote and that is even more frustrating .

It goes without saying that the real culprits have now taken over the asylum, and that arsehole Dominic Cummings seems to be running the show.

I can see much more clearly how 20th century fascism took hold.

No.

Ignorant, beelee, or malign? You choose.

Yes. It’s made me start listening to Radio 3 in the mornings. Today I awoke to some godawful harpsichord twangy shite and my first thought was “It’s not Brexit, it’s so beautiful, it’s not Brexit”.

my first thought was “It’s not Brexit, it’s so beautiful, it’s not Brexit”.

This was truly your first thought this morning?

Well, it worries me.

It's not just Brexit though.

It's the whole malaise. The whole acceptance of lying politicians. Nothing is scandalous anymore. It bodes so ill for our future.

Honesty and integrity counts for nothing.

In reply to the contemptuous snorts of How will it affect my DC, hmm?

Well, one wants to work in a specialist creative arts field. It is rarely well paid. The jobs are generally in small, specialist companies who collaborate with other small companies to achieve a finished article.

These are the small companies who are unlikely to be seeking people who need visas, and even if they do, they would be likely to be below the salary thresholds that would apply reciprocally with the UK (£30,000 currently cited).

The other DS is in computing. His 'year abroad in industry' has been axed as the European countries offering it have pretty much dried up as options.

He is likely to have to go abroad to work which neither he nor I am that keen on, having to do it, not wanting to do it.

This is how Brexit is affecting my DC's prospects.

HTH

I don’t live in GB, (Irish) If it’s any consolation, we are pretty worried too...

There’s a strange feeling about:

It’s kind of “fuck ‘em - they did it to themselves”. - (plus the 800 years + more recent contemptuous treatment of our Politicians/Statehood) mixed with frustration and underneath that again....real concern and worry for our close /friends/colleagues/family ie you lovely lot x
It’s all shit, frankly