Anyone else feeling depressed?

[Bonzabaybee]

Have had some good and bad weeks during lockdown and at the moment just feel rubbish. Waking up feeling depressed and overwhelmed and struggling to get much done. I’m hoping a productive phase comes around soon 😆 Anyone else feeling a bit crap? How are you coping?

@CuckooCuckooClock

So sorry to hear you’re struggling. It’s really tough isn’t it when you can’t find the energy to do the things you need to keep going and feel positive.

I’ve been waking up knowing if I did some exercise it’d sort me out mentally but not being able to bring myself to do it. Everything has felt overwhelming, and I’ve not felt motivated to get anything but the bare minimum done. I totally get that feeling you describe.

I’m not surprised you’re exhausted, glad your boss recognises all the work you’ve done. Do you have any support? Sounds like you’re doing amazingly well

@Duckfinger & @Megatron there’s loads to worry about isn’t there. I had a few weeks of feeling extremely tense and scared about CV and found going to the shops, washing everything, worrying about family, etc. extremely overwhelming. Like @Bluewavescrashing I’ve since been avoiding in-depth news coverage of individual cases, experiences of admissions to hospital, etc. (although I do follow the figures and what the gov is doing). I’m trying not to fret about things I can’t control.

(Although not always succeeding..!)

@bonzabaybee I know exercise will help me too, and I just can’t find the motivation. I managed 10 minutes of Pilates in my living room last night, and then gave up. It was 10 minutes more than 0 minutes. I’ll try and do something today with the weights I’ve got.

I don’t think the weather has helped people this week either. Especially when it was so nice the week before.

Deeply depressed. I've been on and off ADs all my adult life and currently 18 months off them. I am in such a funk right now that I can barely think. Both me and DH have health anxiety and I cant cope with his flare up right now (not covid related) and his anxiety has triggered my Health anxiety symptoms. I also think DH is also depressed but he refuses to admit it. We have let DS have more xbox time than usual and its having detrimental affect on his behaviour but we are so down that the ensuing rows when we try to limit his xbox time is so stressful that we have been bad parents this past week in that respect.we are a deeply unhappy house at the moment. In going to phone the doctors tomorrow I think and ask to be put on ADs again.

@Foxyloxy1plus1 I’m so, so sorry to hear you’re feeling like that. Are you isolating alone? Sending and solidarity Xxxx

Isolating alone must be so, so hard. 😟

I have my family here and they've been great but we're all sick of each other tbh. I feel so worried for my DCs future. What their lives will be like in 20/30 years and it scares the shit out of me.

Increasingly fed up here. Groundhog day just covers it nicely. I’m a student so not currently working anyway, and with little to no part-time jobs going round here at the minute, I feel irrelevant, bored, and ghost-like now i’ve finished for the year. Dh is military, so still working full-time, but he’s completely fed up of the monotony of life, and weekends being no different nor fun anymore. It’s getting to the point where I feel like life isn’t worth getting up for the longer this drags on, and I just hope and pray normality is somewhat on the horizon. The weather doesn’t help either!

My mental health has been brilliant all the way through, which amazed me as normally I'm not great when I don't have much to do.

Until now, suddenly I feel crap. I'm trying to just muddle through it! I feel it's because I think we've hit a bit of a barrier in terms of numbers etc? I also had hoped we'd be in a better place with regards to DS getting back to school this side of the summer, which actually he won't as there's no space for him . Just feels all abit shit. Then there's the guilt for feeling shit about stuff like that when there's bigger issues in the world.

In other words I probably need to cut myself a bit of slack!

Then there's the guilt for feeling shit about stuff like that when there's bigger issues in the world.

In other words I probably need to cut myself a bit of slack!

Sorry to hear you’re feeling it too. You’ve summed my feelings. Have had off days in the last 12 weeks but have been relatively ok, until this week. And then I want to give myself a slap for being “all about me” and down in the dumps in the house.

I’ve lay on the sofa watching Spooks all afternoon and DH & DD have gone for a walk with MIL. I just didn’t want to go, no energy.

I spent the first 9 weeks completely alone, not working, didn't see anyone I knew. After this I spent a few nights at my boyfriend's place an hour away (that's a whole other story- he moved to another village 2 years ago to be closer to a family member; we're together 4 years). Last week I saw my elderly father in his garden for the first time. I'm also back working part time since last week. I was also up and down during the whole time but feeling worse than ever now, even though I'm doing a bit more. I was on sertraline for 18 months for physical symptoms of anxiety but came off them earlier this year because of side effects. My boyfriend came up to see me last night and today - I'm feeling really flat and sleepy but putting my best happy face on.

I think the routine and interaction (and time out of the house!) makes such a difference. Easy to mentally lose touch with things a bit when you’re away from things for so long

Which is why isolation is such a killer, but everyone's decided that being "safe" doesn't include avoiding dementia or ever being able to leave your house again.

My mental state can be summed up by the fact I'm back on anti-depressants, having successfully come off them a while back. I've always struggled with depression / anxiety and had worked really hard to put good routines & good habit in place, but its all up in the air now. From a personal POV I"ve never been remotely anxious about the virus...its just the endless fucking lockdown

Sorry to hear you and others are feeling depressed OP and others. The grey skies are not helping.
I've had a really low weekend. Was due back at work as a teacher on Monday and LA have advised schools to remain shut because of R value in North West. I am so desperate to get back to normal. Really missing the children from my class. Then came on here the other night and stupidly clicked on threads that were saying how rubbish teachers are and should be sacked or get pay cuts. I just want to do my job. I get emails, photos and videos from my class and could cry that they are missing out, but it is not in my power to change anything.