Bring your worries over here, the Night Shift are here to mind them.

[NaomiFromMilkShake]

Starting a new thread because the old one is full, I never thought when I started it that it would a) be moved to Classics and b) help so many people.

Get home safely Dowser

I'm off up to bed now. If anyone has any worries (don't we all at the moment) they can come up with me and I'll smother them with my duvet.

Awake feeling unwell. Nauseous and generally not right. I feel a bit hot but not actually running a temperature. I keep waking up. I know that nausea can occasionally be a covid 19 symptom.

@EducatingArti oh that is worrying. I hope you are OK and it is nothing to worry about.

Try to get some more rest. I've got your worries for now.

Safe journey @Dowser, be thinking of you.
Thank you so much for this thread. I will probably make a complete hash of what I am trying to say here so please know I’m not saying this in any negative way but I keep coming back and lurking. Seeing other people having worries and concerns that take over at the worst times the same as I do makes me feel more grounded, and is helping my anxiety stay in check. With ddad in lockdown at his home, then having a hypo, my dmum having to self isolate and getting it into her head that her head cold that has all the non symptoms of Covid is Covid and keeps saying about ringing 111 when they don’t have time for a woman who will ramble on about a 2nd cousin removed’s mate who thought she had something but didn’t and having to calm her down, a dd who is at 6th form and surrounded by what seems like a million teenage views and worries and dp who works away and my dsis on a holiday of a lifetime enjoying life (which in her line of work I’m really pleased that she is, both her and her dp really need this break but timing wise for me with everything and not knowing when she’ll be allowed back ) I’m feeling a bit buried by it all.....knowing that not only are there other people feeling similar but there are the wonderful guardians on here who are saying ‘it’s ok - we are with you’ is helping without me having to type a word. I don’t feel alone anymore, and it’s ok to feel like I want to cry now and again when I am on my own

See it’s sorted..that’s a lot of worries and I hope you got your sleep.
Tears are a good pressure release.
I feel like. A good cry now but I’ll pull myself together.
Not fair on dh
We are in this together
I’m writing like I think. Short staccato sentences.
Argh

Dowser, it's ok, you've got this. One step at a time. Let me hold those worries for you x

@Dowser and everyone else - my coping at the moment is take it back to one hour at a time, one minute at a time - we will get through.
Virtual handholding is still allowed and mine are there for the taking x

I know it's a bit early, but oh god the worry! No school, no nursery, three young children, no money, work, the strange headache I can't get rid of.

I feel like I might never sleep again.

I know it's not much compared to what others are dealing with at this awful time but I'd so love to sleep.

Good evening all. Hope everyone is bearing up ok.
If anyone needs to leave any worries while they get some sleep just drop them off and I’ll keep them under control for you.

Yes please

Cross posted with you @HettySunshine.
I’ve got your worries for you. You go get your head down.

whoops, you can try and get it back off him tomorrow.

What a lovely thread

!!! It's ok thanks, I know how cats like sleeping in awkward spots so he'll probably be curled up on the package snoring away

Lord. I've been crying all evening and I really have nothing to cry about compared to some people on here (so feeling bad about that too). Need to disengage and get some sleep.
What a caring thread, like a pillow on the internet

@Mistressiggi I know what you are feeling. But for now, why don't you pass that onto me and put your head on your pillow and get some rest? I can't change the world and the mess we are in. I can, however, happily take this from you for tonight and let you rest. Shh now. I've got you.

I've been crying all evening too... and now Cyndi Lauper's Time After Time has come on the radio and I've come undone again...

Mid-divorce. STBExH moved out on March 1st. DD and I are in isolation- I've the cough, the tiredness, the shivers but low temps and now I feel short of breath but not worryingly so. I do worry though that I'll deteriorate. I know that days 4-7 can be crucial... day 4 today. I want to get a test to be sure I've antibodies.

I will likely lose my job and the rental property I'm in. It's forced renting that's one of the very compelling reasons I'm actively divorcing my husband who - whilst not being a bad person- is utterly feckless. He has moved into his property. His job is secure as is the roof over his head and I'm incandescent with rage that now we find ourselves in a worse-case scenario the fact that he chose to please his birth family rather than putting his wife and child means everything has gone to shit. The divorce will be delayed. That being said, he did call me this morning when I lost it via text and has said he'll help. I'm sad though that my ex and my DD won't see each other for a while. Not sure how lockdown will look and we've got ten more days in isolation anyway.

And I'm lonely. I'm a people person. I have the most fabulous 8 year old for company but have just started dating someone and the enormity of what's going on - although necessary- and the fact that I won't have adult company possibly for months has tipped me over the edge tonight.

I've loads of friends, was once a teacher so my DD is loving things so far - it's great to have time with her. I might have a few weeks of work but physically I'm obviously really run down and yes. I'm terrified about no adult contact and no physical contact with the gorgeous man I'd just started getting to know.

I hope I sleep. Mercifully, the first few days of this awful virus meant I was so shattered that I did sleep but I do need someone to keep worries for me tonight please. Because tonight I feel frightened.

I'll keep them safe.

Rest tonight, they're far away from you and will not trouble you again tonight.

Sleep easy.

I’m terrified. Not even for the virus as much as I am the financial crash which will happen after and the loss of business, loss of the high street, people losing jobs and homes, life as we know it is over All day I’ve just kept thinking what is the point in living, I’m not mentally strong enough to deal with this and I don’t want to but I know already that morgues are too full and it seems selfish to add to that stress and even the stress on the NHS if it were to fail seems so horrible of me but I really just can’t imagine living through this and don’t feel I have anyone to talk to about how seriously anxious this is making me

@z0fl0ra you just rest. I'll take the fear and worry for now. You need a good sleep. Go rest. I've got you.

@2018SoFarSoGreat that’s so kind and I wish I could, I’ve had insomnia for a while and tonight is a particularly bad night but I’ve only got 3 of my sleeping tablets left but feel too anxious to ring doctors and sort some out as it doesn’t feel like a priority at all right now how are you holding up in all of this? It just feels good to be able to talk to someone other than my partner who just thinks I’m overreacting and he doesn’t think it’s that bad at all, we’re obviously not living on the same planet right now or seeing the same news

I am sure you could ring and get a refill. You are going to need to sleep if you can. In whatever way you can.

I am in SF so we are on shelter in place. DH is compromised healthwise, so we are really being cautious. I am going into the office two days (legal essential work is exempted) but wish I didn't have to. Strip off in the garage when I'm home, clothes on a hot wash and me in the shower. Abundance of caution.

Haven't seen my DGSs in two weeks and that is really hard. I so miss them. Their smell and their little bodies when they hug in.

We can do this because we must. The cost is too high not to. But the mental health cost is high. We have to support each other as we can.

Sending a virtual hug and a big strong virtual shoulder to lean on.

Hello everyone,
I'm sitting in my bed its 02.25 in the morning and I cannot sleep. I am so very anxious about this virus, I've lost 6lbs In weight worrying about it and all off the implications and I am terrified. I work in a hospital as a admin worker but we have had no training on cv19 and its effects. My daughter is a nurse and her wedding has just been cancelled and she is heartbroken and I cannot do anything g to help her. I feel like my whole little world has been tipped upside down and I'm frightened. If anyone can reassure me in any way please do , will, this virus ,ast forever ? Will we ever know normal again? Will we be able to buy food if we go into lockdown? I'm actually terrified Nd not ashamed to admit it. The government said we will hit z peak and then the cases will drop but does this really happen. Please help me xx

@Icecreamlover63 there is si much we don't yet know. But this I know. Not sleeping and worrying ourselves sick will not help. Just for tonight, why don't you close your eyes and tell your poor brain that there is nothing to worry about. I've got your whole stack of worries and shall hold them tight. You just hand them over. That's the way. Just rest.

Thank you I've tried but I lit cannot switch off. Everytime I go to sleep I jolt with fear. My head aches because I'm tired but I ca not sleep x