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... for those who are devastated about Brexit, how are you dealing with the fear and depression and anxiety?

775 replies

testytesting · 29/03/2017 09:58

Has anyone got any strategies? I am genuinely not one for melodrama, but I am devastated, angry, terrified, depressed, and I feel so utterly helpless. Nothing in my lifetime has made me feel like this, and I just can't imagine feeling like this for the next two years and beyond. I can hardly bear to listen to the news, but I feel compelled to anyway. How are other remainers dealing with this, what are your coping strategies? And what, if anything, can we DO?

OP posts:
Flumpernickel · 30/03/2017 16:47

ohto

Op "AIBU ?"
flump "YABU".

Does that fix it and get it back on track?

justgothesolution · 30/03/2017 21:33

Like another poster miles back I will never forget how I felt on the morning of 24th June. I sat up all night watching it and as dawn came up I really did feel as though someone had died. It might sound melodramatic but I don't care, it is how I felt. I cried buckets. As the months have gone on I have tried to be optimistic and grab hold of anyone who sounds vaguely intelligent explaining how it will all be ok but in my heart of hearts I am just so sad.

I did think that I would be more upset yesterday than I actually was but I suppose I have had months to get used to the idea. Just feel as though we have lost so much and gained so little. Maybe in a decade it might feel alright again but then again?

Not sure how I cope with it, just by trying to be more optimistic than I really am I suppose.

Davros · 30/03/2017 21:54

Where is the OP? I think it smells of a fishing journalist as a pp said

Norland · 30/03/2017 21:58

Whatever gave you that idea Davros? It wasn't the OP's user name was it?

(wanders off to to work out how to turn off all the emails I get telling me a new post has been made on a thread I'm on...)

PennyPickle · 30/03/2017 22:06

Why are you having to deal with fear, depression and anxiety OP? Do you know something everyone else doesn't??

Clnz4fun · 30/03/2017 22:10

justgothesolution I didn't stay up all night but it was the first thing I looked into when I woke up, I just thought fuck then went back to sleep but later woke up in a slight panic like I'd just had a nightmare.

It is what it is a horrid understated mess and no we don't have control over what happens but we do with how we deal and cope with it.

I kind of just felt a small sense of grief from that day onwards watching and waiting.

user1490255135 · 30/03/2017 22:49

My family and I are preparing to leave the UK. There is no hope left I am afraid. For those of us married to foreigners or who are foreigners, this country is just not the place to be right now. I am sad to say this but the experiences I have had in recent years is basically one big fat metaphor from those horror films where the demon possesses the house. And as you are watching the film you are just screaming for the teenagers to stay away and not go in. This is how I view the UK where people are protesting a US president over his immigration woes and here, who is protesting the deportation of their neighbours? It is quite sad if not disgraceful.

user1490255135 · 30/03/2017 22:49

My family and I are preparing to leave the UK. There is no hope left I am afraid. For those of us married to foreigners or who are foreigners, this country is just not the place to be right now. I am sad to say this but the experiences I have had in recent years is basically one big fat metaphor from those horror films where the demon possesses the house. And as you are watching the film you are just screaming for the teenagers to stay away and not go in. This is how I view the UK where people are protesting a US president over his immigration woes and here, who is protesting the deportation of their neighbours? It is quite sad if not disgraceful.

user1490255135 · 30/03/2017 22:50

My family and I are preparing to leave the UK. There is no hope left I am afraid. For those of us married to foreigners or who are foreigners, this country is just not the place to be right now. I am sad to say this but the experiences I have had in recent years is basically one big fat metaphor from those horror films where the demon possesses the house. And as you are watching the film you are just screaming for the teenagers to stay away and not go in. This is how I view the UK where people are protesting a US president over his immigration woes and here, who is protesting the deportation of their neighbours? It is quite sad if not disgraceful.

user1490255135 · 30/03/2017 22:50

My family and I are preparing to leave the UK. There is no hope left I am afraid. For those of us married to foreigners or who are foreigners, this country is just not the place to be right now. I am sad to say this but the experiences I have had in recent years is basically one big fat metaphor from those horror films where the demon possesses the house. And as you are watching the film you are just screaming for the teenagers to stay away and not go in. This is how I view the UK where people are protesting a US president over his immigration woes and here, who is protesting the deportation of their neighbours? It is quite sad if not disgraceful.

PowderGreen · 30/03/2017 22:53

My family and I are preparing to leave the UK. There is no hope left I am afraid. For those of us married to foreigners or who are foreigners, this country is just not the place to be right now. I am sad to say this but the experiences I have had in recent years is basically one big fat metaphor from those horror films where the demon possesses the house. And as you are watching the film you are just screaming for the teenagers to stay away and not go in. This is how I view the UK where people are protesting a US president over his immigration woes and here, who is protesting the deportation of their neighbours? It is quite sad if not disgraceful.

PowderGreen · 30/03/2017 22:53

My family and I are preparing to leave the UK. There is no hope left I am afraid. For those of us married to foreigners or who are foreigners, this country is just not the place to be right now. I am sad to say this but the experiences I have had in recent years is basically one big fat metaphor from those horror films where the demon possesses the house. And as you are watching the film you are just screaming for the teenagers to stay away and not go in. This is how I view the UK where people are protesting a US president over his immigration woes and here, who is protesting the deportation of their neighbours? It is quite sad if not disgraceful.

PennyPickle · 30/03/2017 22:53

My family and I are preparing to leave the UK. There is no hope left I am afraid. For those of us married to foreigners or who are foreigners, this country is just not the place to be right now. I am sad to say this but the experiences I have had in recent years is basically one big fat metaphor from those horror films where the demon possesses the house. And as you are watching the film you are just screaming for the teenagers to stay away and not go in. This is how I view the UK where people are protesting a US president over his immigration woes and here, who is protesting the deportation of their neighbours? It is quite sad if not disgraceful

Hysterical much....X 4!

PowderGreen · 30/03/2017 23:04

My family and I are preparing to leave the UK. There is no hope left I am afraid. For those of us married to foreigners or who are foreigners, this country is just not the place to be right now. I am sad to say this but the experiences I have had in recent years is basically one big fat metaphor from those horror films where the demon possesses the house. And as you are watching the film you are just screaming for the teenagers to stay away and not go in. This is how I view the UK where people are protesting a US president over his immigration woes and here, who is protesting the deportation of their neighbours? It is quite sad if not disgraceful.

PowderGreen · 30/03/2017 23:04

My family and I are preparing to leave the UK. There is no hope left I am afraid. For those of us married to foreigners or who are foreigners, this country is just not the place to be right now. I am sad to say this but the experiences I have had in recent years is basically one big fat metaphor from those horror films where the demon possesses the house. And as you are watching the film you are just screaming for the teenagers to stay away and not go in. This is how I view the UK where people are protesting a US president over his immigration woes and here, who is protesting the deportation of their neighbours? It is quite sad if not disgraceful.

PowderGreen · 30/03/2017 23:04

My family and I are preparing to leave the UK. There is no hope left I am afraid. For those of us married to foreigners or who are foreigners, this country is just not the place to be right now. I am sad to say this but the experiences I have had in recent years is basically one big fat metaphor from those horror films where the demon possesses the house. And as you are watching the film you are just screaming for the teenagers to stay away and not go in. This is how I view the UK where people are protesting a US president over his immigration woes and here, who is protesting the deportation of their neighbours? It is quite sad if not disgraceful.

PowderGreen · 30/03/2017 23:04

My family and I are preparing to leave the UK. There is no hope left I am afraid. For those of us married to foreigners or who are foreigners, this country is just not the place to be right now. I am sad to say this but the experiences I have had in recent years is basically one big fat metaphor from those horror films where the demon possesses the house. And as you are watching the film you are just screaming for the teenagers to stay away and not go in. This is how I view the UK where people are protesting a US president over his immigration woes and here, who is protesting the deportation of their neighbours? It is quite sad if not disgraceful.

PowderGreen · 30/03/2017 23:04

My family and I are preparing to leave the UK. There is no hope left I am afraid. For those of us married to foreigners or who are foreigners, this country is just not the place to be right now. I am sad to say this but the experiences I have had in recent years is basically one big fat metaphor from those horror films where the demon possesses the house. And as you are watching the film you are just screaming for the teenagers to stay away and not go in. This is how I view the UK where people are protesting a US president over his immigration woes and here, who is protesting the deportation of their neighbours? It is quite sad if not disgraceful.

PowderGreen · 30/03/2017 23:04

My family and I are preparing to leave the UK. There is no hope left I am afraid. For those of us married to foreigners or who are foreigners, this country is just not the place to be right now. I am sad to say this but the experiences I have had in recent years is basically one big fat metaphor from those horror films where the demon possesses the house. And as you are watching the film you are just screaming for the teenagers to stay away and not go in. This is how I view the UK where people are protesting a US president over his immigration woes and here, who is protesting the deportation of their neighbours? It is quite sad if not disgraceful.

KC225 · 30/03/2017 23:07

How many of your neighbours have been deported? Ohhhh that'll be right - none.

And yes I am married to a foreigner

As Pennypickle said 'hysterical much x 4'

PowderGreen · 30/03/2017 23:10

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PowderGreen · 30/03/2017 23:10

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Tissunnyupnorth · 30/03/2017 23:21

Are you ok powderGreen Confused?

Tissunnyupnorth · 30/03/2017 23:22

Or perhaps user *135???

Alfieisnoisy · 31/03/2017 07:48

Powder, I have many friends from the EU here and this is without doubt a stressful time for many of them. None of them have been deported though and I hope one of the first things TM will do is secure their rights here. It's in her interests to do this as many Brits live in Europe too.

I voted Remain but I am broadly confident that Brexit will be okay in the long run ...I have faith in our country and the vast majority of people who have no issue with people here from other parts of the world. My friends enhance my life and I think they enhance their communities as well. They work, they bring up families here , they integrate with their neighbours etc. There is nothing to be gained by deporting people like this.

So don't just leave ...the vast majority of the UK people still welcome you here. ...despite Brexit.