Anyone feeling less anxious about Corona?

[millerjane]

Some of the stats and the anecdotal evidence from my mum (works in A&E) seems encouraging. I feel a lot better personally and think I have adjusted to the idea of lockdown.

How about you? Or do you feel worse?

Less anxious about Corona but more anxious about the long term impact on social and mental health issues and am anxious that industries have been decimated. We will be feeling the effects of this for a very long time.

I wish I was. Im still terrified I wont survive it if I get it, and that when the peak comes we wont have anywhere near enough ventilators, and that there will be so many dead people.

And what if my kids break a limb or get ill and we have to leave the house - then I might catch it and die.

And I miss going out.

I am not anxious about the virus,doing everything possible to not get it.

I am however anxious about how this lockdown is causing so much distress to people,I think I read there were nine murders today,all because of the lockdown.People having no income and struggling to feed their families,awful.

Interesting to see how Countries who haven’t had such a strict lockdown fare.

*TwoZeroTwoZero

I was never all that anxious about the virus. I'm more anxious about not being able to work, and therefore earn any money, for the foreseeable*

This for me too. I've been through a lot of shit times in my life, but the uncertainty of this is the thing that could make me spiral into depression again.

I haven't been hugely anxious, tbh., but I think that's because I know how bad this is. There isn't anything to be scared about, in one sense, because fear is of the unknown. I'm an ex ITU nurse, so I have seen respiratory disease often. My only anxiety was that it wasn't being taken seriously. Now that we're in lockdown and I'm strictly shielding my parents, I feel calmer.

I feel better now I have stopped reading and watching the news unless it’s an announcement. I am trying to concentrate on what I can control and am staying at home with my two children. Dh is a key worker but is taking every precaution. If one of us get it, then we deal with it as and if it comes.

I have to try and stay calm. If i get too anxious, I then will have crippling ibs flare ups and it’s already been the worst it’s ever been.

No. I'm feeling worse. Personally, I feel less anxious because I am pretty sure I've had the virus and also I still feel like a piece of shit (on day 20) I assume I'm not going to end up in hospital. And, even better, my husband and children haven't been ill. But, globally, I feel worse. I would never trade off health against an economic outcome, but I feel more and more gloomy about how bad the recession is likely to be. When people compare it to 2008, I think they have the scale completely wrong. Also, anxious that immunity will be very short-lived, so will have to go through this piece of shit illness (my symptoms were 'mild', didn't phone doctor, still most ill I've been in years) multiple times. And, more generally, worried that everyone else will so that there's in a sense no 'point' in treating anyone now, because they'll only get it again in a few months time.

People talk as if 'finding a vaccine' is some universal panacea, but we haven't been able to find vaccines for every virus. There's no hepatitis C vaccine. There's no HIV vaccine. There was never a SARS vaccine. I have no medical expertise and don't understand why, but it seems optimistic to me to assume that we will in 18 months have a vaccine for this coronavirus and/or be able to shoulder the repeated blows to the healthcare system of people becoming infected and reinfected. The only really hopeful possibility seems to be that the virus itself will change and become milder.

So, in conclusion, the long-term social cost of this illness seems MUCH HIGHER to me than it did a couple of weeks ago before I experienced (what I think was) it or learned more about viruses.

I became less anxious as soon as the lockdown happened. I had been avoiding crowds, staying home etc and felt horrified and powerless seeing the pictures of crowds of people out in the sun. I was so glad when they’re ere told to stay inside.
I’m still anxious about food. I’ve got my first couple of deliveries soon but think I won’t be able to get further deliveries. I’m going to the supermarket tomorrow am, but am scared to go really.

Less anxious about the virus, more anxious about the paramilitary measures.

I feel worse. I've been furloughed and without the distraction and structure of work I'm left with my thoughts non-stop. Scared I'll never go back to work, scared I won't see my mum again, scared of the long term impact on my daughter's development, scared of what it will do to the economy, scared for FIL and disabled BIL... I'm sure I'll be better tomorrow but right now I'm pretty miserable.

I'm also scared I'll end up isolating for 18months and that my children can't start school when they should.

Or that I wont be able to get my prescription.

I don't know how everyone isnt terrified :(

Not anxious at all, I’m recovered and done so feeling very smug although less smug because I’ve now got to sit and wait for everyone else to get it too

I think things are calming down. I joined one of these Whatsapp street groups and it's gone really quiet. Am hearing less from people who were texting/messaging regularly. Everyone is just sinking down into this new normal.

I feel ok until I have to do a shop cos then I spend the couple of day being completely anxious about everything I've touched and what I may have picked up. Then it subsides until the next time.

I’m a key worker and at first I was panicking about going to work but not so much now.

I’m not scared about catching the virus, as a 9 stone 38 year old with no underlying health conditions, never had a chest infection or anything of the sort.

I rarely get a cold (2 in 5 years) and DP had flu last year and if flawed him and I didn’t get that- no way was I not exposed to it, but I do think some people have immune systems that a better at fighting certain things.

Send a sickness big my way and I’ll definitely get that though!!

So from my personal point of view, I’d rather catch it than someone that often gets ill or underlying health conditions etc as I feel ill have a better chance of fighting it off.

Much better after talking to the doctors and nurses in my immediate family all of whom are very pragmatic and are concerned but not scared iyswim. BIL has had it for 9 days and says for him it has barely been as bad as a bad cold.

Also there was no SARs vaccine because they stopped trying to find one as it was needless once it was determined it wasnt very contagious.

I am terribly anxious about the long-term effects of living in lockdown. This is our best option, so believe me, I am all for it. But as DH, a GP, explained tonight, he has to put a mountain of patient care on hold. So many people with non-covid related issues will not have timely access to the care or treatment they need and this will have a devastating, knock-on effect. I think we're in for a proper long haul shit storm.
And the number of people who will not be able to just magically return to their previous professions and businesses after this will also be devastating.
I'm way more anxious about the post-Covid world we'll be living in.

I do. But I think that’s because I’ve found out my dp has been arranging to meet women when this is over and sexting them. Massive distraction from the OMG I’m going to die from corona that was circling constantly

Wewearpinkonwednesdays
This for me too. I've been through a lot of shit times in my life, but the uncertainty of this is the thing that could make me spiral into depression again.
Same here. In fact, this year so far has been awful. I've hardly worked since Christmas because I've been physically ill, then I was mentally unwell, then the anti-anxiety tablets made me feel worse. It was only in the middle of February that I started getting back on an even keel and had a few full weeks' of work. Now I'm effectively laid off.

I'm not anxious about this bloody virus: I'm angry at how much it's changed everything overnight and how all the certainties that we thought we had are now just seemingly crumbling down around us.

I was starting to calm down, until my Ex messaged me to say his manager had died from the virus. My Ex and me split a while ago and I tend to not respond to his messages but couldnt ignore this one as he is isolating alone in another town and was upset about his boss. He told me he was in his 60s but fit (cycles etc) and no underlying health conditions. He wasnt in hospital either, died at home in his bed. It just got to me that this is real when someone you know is directly affected. I think as we learn of more and more people we know becoming infected, especially if severe or worse, it will make the panic rise again.

My DS messaged me tonight "Mum, you can not go out ever, your high risk" I was confused by this comment, I am 55, and a smoker, a couple of stone overweight but no underlying health conditions. It was his anxiety over me that made me more afraid.

So in answer to your question, no I am not feeling less anxious but if you had asked me that yesterday it may have been a different response

My friend's mum died of the virus today.
So no, I feel sad and scared that she'll be the first of many that I know

I stopped feeling stressed a couple of weeks ago. Reading up about the virus and following the research helped me a lot.
As for lockdown, it hasn't really changed my life that much, I guess I already had a crap boring life.
Obviously everyone's situation is different though. I know many people are under massive stress right now, just hoping for their sakes things start to improve soon.

Yes I feel a lot better to be honest. Since reading an article about viral loading which made a lot of sense it would appear that we really need to protect our NHS staff who are dealing with the virus on the front line. But that the rest of us who are socially distancing ourselves and the vulnerable who are self isolating should now be fine. This should therefore ease the pressure on the NHS and allow them to deal with the cases who were infected before the restrictions were put in place.

Jena and BigBird that is painfully close to home.