The ADs seek joy and aubergines

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We got a bit cut off there didn't we? Thread 15 now.

Here you are! Missed most of the thread as usual but a couple of things jumped out at me. 1. I have a family member with terrible health anxiety and having had a lot of experience of her, I've noticed a similarity in behaviour over Covid. Two friends who thought they had it definitely had symptoms consistent with a very bad panic attack. Both took themselves to hospital and were just immediately sent home where they suddenly recovered. But the story amongst mutual friends is that each of them 'almost died'. 2. The worst dementor I know ('loads of young people have died'), also loves the 'almost died' story and says things like 'we're living through history'. Both these things intertwine in one whole gleefully-loving-being-part-of-a-drama thing.

@iamapixie That's a very astute observation. Far too many people are behaving like they're suddenly starring in their own reality TV show and are almost giddy with the excitement of it all.

iamapixie Oh this reminds me so much of DH. We both think we had covid in March and he was a bit more ill than I was, but not dreadfully so. Last night at friends apparently his lungs weren't back to normal until 8 weeks later ( never mentioned this at the time) and if he hadn't have been so fit with the exercise he does, he definitely would have needed to go to hospital because of his breathing.

I don't deny he was unwell, but the symptoms get worse every time he describes them

Had a lovely murdering trip to the Big City, new leggings for me, shorts for one child, big girl came with me and bought frivolous shit. I also got chocolate from Hotel Chocolat, ostensibly as a present for a lactose intolerant friend, but who knows how long it will survive... and then new shorts and pants for DH as he refuses to shop for himself. This is not a new thing, I've been doing it for 15 years. Then we murderously stopped at Hobbycraft and spent money on things we didn't need. Was a bit subdued, and Oxford was very quiet but it was a step in the right direction.

I'm always surprised by the large amount of MNers that have "definitely" had coronavirus even though they hadn't been tested (see also: swine flu ).

This was around Feb/March so there are usually colds and flu about anyway. I was really ill in March, which turned into pneumonia, but there is no way to be sure if it was CV or not. (I worry that all these self diagnosed people will assume immunity when that may not be the case but that's probably a different thread!)

I need a slap. Ventured into the rest of MN and fuck me it's wall to wall dementors out there today.

Lesson learned. Drinking that much last night was a massive mistake. Despite the lack of thumping head, I’ve spent all day in a fug of misery with even less motivation than normal. I thought for a while my MH had taken a worrying turn, but I’m hopeful I’m just paying the price for the fun last night.

This week I’m going to swerve the shops because I’m eating utter shite which is having a detrimental effect on my mental and physical health anyway.

Zero deaths in Scotland. Presumably this means lockdown is working and half the population will be jumping with delight at their slowing civic freedom and self-adopted eradication strategy.

Someone in my village “everested” yesterday. 21 hours of running up a fucking mountain and I’ve barely got the will to hang out the washing.

Gah. Sorry for the moaning. I’m sure 2 hours of messy crafts and making memories will cheer me right up.

@NothingIsWrong

I need a slap. Ventured into the rest of MN and fuck me it's wall to wall dementors out there today.

Yep. I commented on the thread about too many people being on a country walk then hid it as I could see it wasn’t going to add to my wellbeing.

I have never hidden so many threads on mn before! Its the only way to stop myself getting sucked in😄
I read, do a reply, delete, hide. Self preservation kicks in finally . Wasted too much time and head space trying to be reasonable when people have been ridiculously wrong or nasty on here to just get the same old excuse P.A.D!!!!!
It's pointless.

There's some pretty bad dementing out there but also some sensible people and one absolutely heart breaking post re a child dying (preCovid I think) and how the world had not been expected to stop.
That summed up for me why I get so angry about this (another poster called it 'fetishising Covid' - succinctly brilliant): the selfishness of the Covid-obsessed is just staggering, and yet if you care about anything else at all, you're attacked for being selfish.
I'm feeling pretty depressed at the moment so the post made me a bit weepy. I can't imagine how I'd feel in that situation if some fucker was dramatising about how vulnerable they are because they once got hay-fever and so we need to shut down forever because of Covid. Can they not see how self obsessed and insensitive it is. (and also to the genuinely vulnerable) Argh

Oh god. That was meant to say dementoring not dementing (in case an anti AD comes in, reads and wants me banned for suggesting anything to do with dementia (which my mum has and which I don't take lightly at all)

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane
Someone in my village “everested” yesterday. 21 hours of running up a fucking mountain and I’ve barely got the will to hang out the washing.

The nearest I've come to that was 'ex- everesting' when I managed to get rid of an Everest double glazing salesman without buying in the 90s. Probably took nearly as long 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@willow2017
I have never hidden so many threads on mn before! Its the only way to stop myself getting sucked in 😄

I do the same - but sometimes hit send first - I still hide it though most of the time. I don't really want to know if anyone responds 😁😁

Sadly it’s all over isn’t it
Apart from a bit of posturing from the government and councils.
I feel so sad
I’m sick of my fellow man already. Sat on a bench overlooking the sea and you couldn’t get a credit card between us and the fence
But no a dad and his little kid pushing an annoying toy lawn mower Managed it 😡

Please Boris bring back strict 3 metre social distancing and total lockdown
I want my peace back and quiet roads

😂😂😂

"Fetishising Covid" is brilliant. That is exactly what a lot of people are doing. Including the dementors on my FB who are nowhere near vulnerable. They are also fetishising the lockdown, practically salivating at the thought of another "proper" one.

Never mind the businesses that will go to the wall and the lives that will be destroyed as a result. That's by the by.

I do feel sorry for the people like the woman with the baby getting images in their head etc and about how the gov told her to act like people have it etc

What did they do to some peoples mental health with their horrible adverts etc now people are getting intrusive thoughts and images

and now they are jollying them along to go out as normal no wonder she feels vulnerable after their fear campaign

You guys are braver than me even reading some threads, I nearly gave up on MN until I found this thread. I have given up on another couple of forums, at least on FB I can snooze people so as not to offend.

You guys are braver than me even reading some threads

Reading more widley today it's reminded me there are sanctimonious arseholes in all topics.

Though I've tried to stay away from the school topics as it just leads me to start worrying about Y10 DD1 education and GCSE's next year.

Me too mine is yr 10 also. We have been told by school, mocks after Christmas but assessments asap as well (not to be used for grades but to pick up issues) or something! Not sure if mocks usually then but there we go. It's stressful.

Thank God you are here. I have been lost in Mumsnet like father Ted in the lingerie section.

I do feel sorry for the people like the woman with the baby getting images in their head etc and about how the gov told her to act like people have it etc

Oh, that is so sad Orangeblossoms. I can totally see how that could happen. When I was a new mum, I was so overwhelmed by the task of keeping this tiny life safe that my mental health took a battering. I used to do loopy things like sit next to the sleeping baby, holding a mirror up to her nose every ten minutes to check she was breathing. That was the most extreme thing I remember, but I know I spent the entire day in a fog of hyper-alertness, imagining danger after danger. It became noticeably bad after a few months and my mum stepped in to help. If she and my husband hadn't intervened, I would have deteriorated further.

This poor mum, with the government adding to her intrusive thoughts. It's criminal, what they've done.

I got a real lump in my throat at this Tommy statue
Passed it in the car loads but never up close.

I could feel the dejection, exhaustion, sheer weight of hopelessness pouring off him.

Summed up a lot of the feelings around at the moment.

I had two grandfathers in ww1 . Luckily both survived. Was never spoken about. I didn’t know they’d been soldiers till I found their medals when I had to empty mums house.

All that sacrifice and we gave up our freedom so readily and we are putting up with the sheer lunacy of this 2m rule and social distancing with arrows, tape argh

That statue brought it home to me in a way that words haven’t.

Was there social distancing where I’ve been today?
Was there shite!
Will there be an upswing in cases.
No.

@SummerHouse

Thank God you are here. I have been lost in Mumsnet like father Ted in the lingerie section.

Thank you! That’s really made me chuckle and perhaps a bit of father Ted is exactly what I need after dinner.

I went to karate for thr first time in 13 weeks today. Fairly sure we broke the rules and there was much more than 6 of us and we were indoors. But the council gave us the keys to a hall we dont usually use so if they say it's ok 🤷‍♀️

It was amazing though, we have lost our flexibility and were sweating buckets but it was so good for my MH.

I do find myself swinging from really positive to really worried. What's happening in the US & China is making me concerned.

@Orangeblossom78 it all a bit shit really isn't it.

We're Wales so she sat 3/4 of one GCSE which she should get this summer - so fingers cross. It was only started in September.

There were two controlled assesments that were due to be sat in May -and five GCSE exams - in November they were due to do the three GCSE science practicals - and there was another controlled assesments and January exams and then a heavy GCSE exam period.

That's what I know of as communication this last year to DD1 and us has been truely dire.

So fuck knows how they plan to fit it all in even if they go back full time in September and you'd think they'd be ploughing ahead workwise on-line but the opposite been true.

It's 11 GCSE you'd assume they'd drop some but many are compulsary or she needs them for her future.

Clearly it doesn't take much to set me off on the whle subject. Long term I know she'll be fine short term it's frustrating.

I do find myself swinging from really positive to really worried. What's happening in the US & China is making me concerned.

China is an outbreak and we will have them. The important thing is to get it under control.

The US is more concerning but it is a completely different situation to the UK as we are a much smaller country with more central control, the issue in the US is lots of states. Plus the culture is even more freedom loving than the UK.