Anyone else just feeling really anxious and overwhelmed right now?

[WASHI]

I have been working throughout, a mix of at home and at base, and it has been so hard. At first there was all the rhetoric of ‘we are trying to work during a pandemic,’ but now it seems like everyone has forgotten about the MH effects of the pandemic!

The work continues to pile up, but so too do the cases. For the first time, I actually know some good friends who have got Covid. They’re having a pretty hard time of it.

I’m worn out and need a break. I have so much crap going on in almost all areas of my life right now. I lurch from worrying about one thing to worrying about another. And when I finally nod off, my dreams are anxious, tense.

I feel overwhelmed.

Is it just me?

No, it's not. It's crap.

Oh I was saying exactly the same thing today. I seem to constantly have that feeling where you want to simultaneously cry and vomit - so tense all the time.

I'm very anxious about rules relaxing, seeing the football crowds seemed absolutely insane and the government telling us to be careful simultaneously with essentially saying "do whatever" - I can't compute the logic.

Added to which a whole load of other worries - younger son leaving primary and I've been so anxious about his bubble bursting before the school play (DVDed, not live), the Prom etc, whether we'll get our UK break, whether we'll get Covid, then there's working from home like you say where the silence is oppressive and I'm so lonely - and I've got a few health issues and I can't seem to snap out of fixating on them. Then hello unexpected big bill and that's cleared me out of cash half way through the month...

Oh, and the fact I've got a rogue mouse in the bloody utility room which is evading every effort to capture! I don't need that right now!

I definitely need a bloody break!

Oh I think a rogue mouse would finish me off!