Anyone else feeling like they need some break from the mourning now and how are you doing it?

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It's a long period of time isn't it and while I was sad about the Queen's death of course, from a MH point of view I am finding the constant mourning and news of every last detail too much. How are other people escaping, other than avoiding the internet/MN and news? (I would actually like to hear some other news especially what's happening now in Ukraine.)

Avoiding it all. Don’t understand it - feel like I exist in a parallel universe. “Huge respect for all she’s done”? 🤷‍♀️ Nope. Baffled. Confused. Exhausted with it all.

It sounds bad but I completely forgot until I came on MN this evening.

I guess it depends what you do for a living but I work in a school and we had 1 day talking about it and then we moved on and haven’t mentioned it since.

I don’t really watch TV or listen to the radio so unless I come on MN I don’t really hear about it.

Yes normally I do listen to the news at least twice a day. Time to get new habits!

It does feel like a very long time. Funerals in my neck of the woods used to always be within a few days if the death but particularly if you want a slot at a crematorium there is a longer wait nowadays. Its hard.

I watched the service at St Giles today and that felt like a good time to say goodbye for me. I'm not going to watch any more.

I feel for her family having this go on for days. Or maybe they think it's a good thing, maybe it really shows them how loved she was and that makes them feel better.

What the King and Queen have had to do today must be really hard.

On Peacock (Via Sky but I think you can also get it on Now TV). It's highly intellectual. 😜

Easy! Don’t watch live tv.

Maybe find a good series to watch on alternative channels on TV or steaming service and just pick and choose the news programmes you watch

I’ve watched the more ceremonial parts but have no time for the interviews with the general public (at these events) talking about what the Queen meant to them. The presenters always seem to single out children too which I feel is a bit odd, given that they’re so young.

@OnlyEverAutumn You have put it perfectly for me. Thank you so much for articulating what I feel but could not work out how to say.

Streaming service

So now we not only have the news presenters dissecting the vigil, random people are giving their thoughts - I’m out!

Ignoring news, not listening to usual radio station, binging on feel good box sets. Getting jobs done at home I've been meaning to, to fill gaps where I'd be listening to five love news and discussion

Not even wasting time feeling exhausted by it, just not letting it into my life at all. Haven't watched or listened to a single bit of it

Does anyone else think the deification of the queen is not healthy?

Same. How much more is there to be said?

THIS!

And I was gonna say, not watch the news. Remind yourself of what shady things the royal fam has been a part of over the years and how we’d be better off without the lot of them

I don't think you can control what makes you cry. How do you do that? I couldn't watch anything for the first two days because I knew I'd cry too much. I love the queen but what has moved me most is other people's reactions and comments. So it's sad but also uplifting. Which seems to also make me cry.

l choose not to watch it, or read about it, simple as that. Been busy with my garden and kittens, life goes on as normal.

Very much looking forward to the whole bloody thing being over.

Yes, need a break. It's one thing to mourn and it's another thing to force others to. We shouldn't even have a monarch with a political role.

@SmithsterSister 🥰

It's a lot. I am avoiding it by watching Netflix and reading books. I will watch the funeral but beyond that I find collective grief exhausting

I'm just living my life. I don't watch the news anyway. I tend to read it online, skipping the bits I'm not interested in, which is pretty much all of it at the minute😅 It only affects you as much as you allow it.