To think everyone is going to get very fed up with all this?

[cantata]

The thought of John Lewis dumping a washer-dryer on my doorstep and expecting me to remove the old (integrated) one and carry and plumb in the new one makes me wonder.

AIBU to think we're going to get fed up with this social distancing malarkey before very long?

(I hate it anyway, as I need people around me for my sanity. And not my teenagers 24/7).

I had to hand wash everything for two months when our washing machine broke down and we couldn't afford a new one. That's life. I also have to manage with no lighting in my bedroom because it needs rewiring and won't work until it's been done. You just get on with it.

The economic & mental health impact is very worrying. But I honestly think as a society we should be doing everything we can to minimise more people dying alone & afraid. It all sounds horrific.

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The toll & very real risk on frontline teams is also something we should be trying to avoid. Many nurses are working without the right protective equipment which is a national scandal. The best thing we can do right now is to stay at home to make sure the system is not completely overwhelmed & result in millions of deaths.

It’s hard but I genuinely can’t see any other option but to do what we’re being asked to do. To do anything else is inhumane.

Some people need to vent or need support, no matter how minor their problem might seem to you. If you can't give it, why bother posting and kicking someone who's already down.

Is the current appliance beyond repair? Do you know what's wrong with it at all?

BeijingB So what are you saying? or recommending? Anything helpful about the OP getting her new John Lewis machine plumbed in - she says she's plumbed stuff in before and her teenagers could help? And google for plumbing?

Cannot believe she and her DC can't get out of the house for a walk observing social distancing but maybe not.

I do sympathise about mental health and agree it will be a problem. But it seems the people breaking the social distancing recommendations aren't people with MH issues but people who don't understand the problem this virus is causing and buggering it up for people from medics to police to dustbin men and putting everyone in danger.

I don't have serious MH issues. At least I didn't think I did until lockdown started.

Various things have happened in life - and I've dealt with them by being active, keeping fit, being in nature. But we live in a city with no garden. My MH feels more fragile now than ever. It's shocked me.

MH is not taken seriously here at all. So much so that Mumsnet blocked me last week for saying what many of you (aswell as OP) are saying now.

I hear you OP. I'm in a similar scenario as someone with previous mental health problems and I'm finding that the isolation and lack of social contact makes it very hard to think rationally - probably hence your stress about the washer dryer! And not to mention makes me utterly, utterly miserable. And I'm one of the more privileged in this scenario (not vulnerable or a key worker etc). Lockdown is absolutely not sustainable long term. No helpful contributions really but thinking of you

Yes people are going to get fed up I'm sure. The world doesn't revolve around you, get your head out of your fucking arse and have some empathy.

Healthcare worker, sent home waiting for COVID TEST on Monday, am failing to feel your pain

I have asd, isolation is preferable to me than going outside, but it doesn't mean I don't have compassion for those who are struggling. The way people are talking to/about people with mental health difficulties on this site is appalling.

I agree OP. The longer it carries on the more people will be subject to such inconveniences, therefore get fed up and stop properly complying with the social distancing IMO

Unless the deaths from lockdown-induced suicide look likely to overtake the coronavirus deaths that would have happened without lockdown, then lockdown is the right thing to do. Those kinds of hard decisions are what we pay expert Govt advisers for.

I sympathise OP, I have depression and the uncertainty is really hammering me. Despite this, until I'm suicidal, I'm at less risk of death than a person with a pre-existing condition who gets coronavirus and so CV cases have to take priority over my mental health until then.

cantata

You need a mangle and washboard. Then, find some thimbles, place them on your thumbs, strum them down the washboard and Bob's your uncle, free entertainment

Seriously, I can see where you are coming from, it's sad to see such lack of empathy for mh. Unless you have suffered you haven't got a clue, and some of you should be ashamed.

Maybe Cantata could cope with some of the things others are finding difficult now, we are all different and like the virus, nobody is immune to mh problems.

On the plus side you have to be alive in the first place to have MH issues or problems with household appliances deliveries. So you know, swings and roundabouts and all that.

YANBU
Yes, this is the DM, but read
www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8163587/PETER-HITCHENS-Great-Panic-foolish-freedom-broken-economy-crippled.html

Typo: and so preventing CV cases has to take priority over my mental health until then.

Send it back and you will have money

Lockdown is not sustainable. I don’t know what the solution is.

All I know is, as someone with depression and anxiety, who’s also a mother of 3 children (2 being autistic), this week of isolation has nearly broken me. I have no idea how I will go on for months this way.

you have to be alive in the first place to have MH issues

Mental illness can be fatal. The coroner's verdict usually records "suicide" but the real cause is mental illness. Mental illness also increases the chance of substance abuse, self-neglect including neglect of physical health, debt, and chronic unemployment. Mental illness can be difficult to treat and in many cases does not respond to professional counseling, never mind admonishments to "get a grip" or "suck it up" from unqualified randoms on an online forum. Some mental patients, myself included, will never get better because the damage is too deep to be repaired, and will spend a lifetime managing a mental illness.

I'm not saying that lockdown is the wrong thing at this time. I'm saying that lockdown will have long-term, if not fatal, consequences for some people because of the very real adverse effect on their mental health.

If they can only, and rightly so, leave heavy appliances at the front door, I think they should cancel the delivery. Unless the purchaser tells them they have someone who can deal with it! Otherwise we are going to have houses with brand new washers sitting on the front path for weeks.

"I have in fact plumbed in many a washing machine in my time. It's the disentangling and re-entangling an integrated one which flummoxes me."

😂😂😂🤣🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️ this gives you away entirely. I'm embarrassed for you. Enjoy your tangling shit that doesn't actually happen 🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️

I have asd, isolation is preferable to me than going outside, but it doesn't mean I don't have compassion for those who are struggling. The way people are talking to/about people with mental health difficulties on this site is appalling.

The way people are complaining about having to stay inside and the dismissive way they refer to the vulnerable people society is trying to protect is equally appalling. Some people seem to be implying that because the lockdown is difficult for people with mental health problems then we just shouldn't bother with it. That's pitting one vulnerable group against another.
What ticks me off about this whole isolation business is people whining about how boring it is being stuck at home and unable to go out. Well now you have an idea what it's like to be disabled or chronically ill. And some of those people are the sort who make snide comments about how it must be fun to be at home on disability benefits and have unlimited free time. Not so much fun is it?

I have a washing machine sitting in my utility area waiting to be plumbed in so sympathise with you. However it is what it is, we'll manage.

Here's something to uplift :

Good post, bd67thSaysReinstateLangCleg.

do you have a regular plumber, OP? Most would come to their regulars while observing distancing and then you wipe the surfaces with disinfectant. Of course the tradesmen will still visit elderly/ill, they prob need to wear a mask with those people. The govt even allowed removals into empty properties where removals men need to be careful, but you only need one plumber.