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nothingcanhurtmewithmyeyesshut · 26/03/2020 17:44

Ok I honestly don't know if I'm being unreasonable here but if I am then can you tell me so gently?

I'm in a really difficult place at the moment with depression, anxiety and suspected PTSD. I've been having therapy since just before Christmas with a therapist who works from a home office sort of thing, I suppose I'd describe it as an annex. He lives in Enfield which is about 45 minutes drive.

I am struggling with the lockdown but complying and am having almost constant thoughts of suicide. I have them usually anyway but I'm really starting to scare myself.

My therapist has been continuing seeing me and has been a huge support and stabilising influence. He is happy to carry on as neither of us are symptomatic and I am able to stay 2 metres away and not touch anything while there. I am also living with a vulnerable person which makes it more risky but I go to the supermarket once a week for food and have been to the pharmacy for our medications which imo is more risky than going to therapy.

I just dont know whether it is still permissible to go? On the one hand it IS a medical appointment of sorts and if I don't then I WILL end up at A&E where I'm at far more risk of coming into contact with the virus but on the other hand I don't know if the police will agree should I get stopped at a roadblock. What would you do? Phone/online support is not an option due to the nature of the trauma, it would do far more harm than good.

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nothingcanhurtmewithmyeyesshut · 29/03/2020 19:41

I'm really really trying. And getting so angry with people when I see new articles about people having fucking parties and BBQs. I cant see me living to the end of this lockdown and even if I do, these idiots will make it last longer but not just FUCKING COMPLYING. Our grandparents were drafted into service to fight a fucking war. These people are being asked to sit on their damn sofa for 3 weeks! Just bloody do it!

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