Is it just or us anyone elses emotions all over the place?

[Pjsandbaileys]

Just that really with everything that's going on I seen to cry so much more easily, laugh at things I normally wouldn't and get really, really pissed off at some people's behaviour. I'm usually a very keep calm and carry on kind of person 🤪

It's just you.

Just kidding, definitely us too. I spent most of yesterday calling DP a fascist (he's not).

I’m usually pretty stoical, but I’m crying at least once a day at the moment.

It's not just you! I'm all over the place emotionally currently and the rest of the household aren't doing much better.

Me too! Having a few "off" days where I feel really subdued, anxious knot in my stomach, etc. Thankfully mostly fine otherwise!

I usually cry about once a year max if that but have cried 4 times since they closed the schools.

No, sorry, I'm just getting on with it. Drowning in work.

We're all self-isolating well which helps. If I had to work OOH then I'd be worried.

I'm stuck in with a 22 month old and a 6 week old. I'm a crying hysterical shouty mess!

Yes me, feeling very jittery and weirdly very cold. Don't seem to be able to get warm. I am also really angry, if people aren't socially distancing I really glare at them. Just want to go to bed and not wake up until it's over. VERY grateful that every morning seems to be gloriously sunny though.

I was fine until this weekend (we isolated early as vulnerable) and then I was anxious, in tears, manically happy and giggling at stupid stuff..... just all over the place. I guess it’s normal?! If there is such a thing?! Not like we have a time tested reaction to the whole world being put on lockdown Cos of a killer virus

I am normally. very stoic person but I have been all over the place since this started. Going for my shopping nearly finished me off this morning. It made me really panicky with the new social norms of queuing to get in, distancing, no groups of people etc. I was so stressed by it that it has thrown me off kilter for the rest of the day. I'm actually quite shocked at my reaction.

I am not a cryer, but I'm crying about the loss of life as I know it. I am crying because I want to see my friends (not ring them), I want to chat to strangers in shops, I want to go about my normal business, I want not to have lost all my income overnight, and I desperately, desperately want my teenagers to go back to school.

I am crying about all these things.

Delivery from pharmacy yesterday (we are both vulnerable). I was shocked at my reaction and almost jumped backwards as he was too close. Shut the door and burst into tears.

Stress response is fight or flight.

When you can do neither it comes out in other ways...

I usually just crack on with whatever is happening, but this has thrown me. Crying, raging at completely innocuous things (stop buying ALL the fucking tampons everyone!!) and generally being a ball of stress.

I’m just sick of this now, even though I know logically it’s absolutely the right thing. I just want to go have a coffee outside that isn’t my garden.

Not just you and yours op, no.
I'm meditating and listening to classical music today, hoping to chill my nervous system out. Not sure it's working but I'm trying.

Up and down like a yo-yo!

I had a sick, sinking feeling in y stomach as the situation started ramping up a few weeks ago, then felt freaked out and highly stressed two Fridays ago when my work place and schools finally closed.

Then I was running on adrenaline last week, working highly efficiently from home and super cheerful with the kids, but drinking too much in the evenings. Manic, to be honest.

Felt great at the weekend...then down again on Monday.

Scared yesterday. Hopeful today.

I think it’s going to be this way for a while.

Yes, I'm not especially nervous about the virus as such, but this huge change to everything and to life as we know it - I feel oddly anxious and jittery about what the future holds and what a post-pandemic UK economy will look like. My job is currently stable but may not remain so.

I'm not a crier when anxious (I'm just very tense and snappy), but I have had a few tears about missing my mum. She has Alzheimer's so mentally she's been gone a while, but she's in care so I haven't seen her in person for 2 weeks. She's also had 3 falls, I desperately want to see her and give her a cuddle.

I was fine until yesterday then cried a lot and today woke feeling a pit of anxiety in my stomach as if I was about to take an exam or walk out on stage in front of 1000 people.

Gonna try a bit of mindful breathing and fail that dance around like a dick head for a few hours.

Hope you feel better soon, OP.x.

@Pjsandbaileys YANBU. I feel like crying most days. Not all day, but for 10 minutes or so every 3 or 4 hours. Also, I feel very sad for all this that's happening. Then I feel normal/happy/start laughing at a funny sitcom.

I hate what is happening and want normality back.

I am not even one of the unfortunate ones. Me and DH are furloughed on 80%, and have no kids at home, and have good savings and more income than outgoings, but I STILL feel weirdly melancholy half the time.

It’s awful. I swing between being stoical and being terrified and utterly despairing. I’m working from home but today I fell asleep on the sofa for half an hour. I NEVER sleep in the day! I felt so guilty. It was like my body just shut me down for a bit. I’m now drinking wine and eating a family bag of peanut M & Ms..

Yes I'm swinging between a dragon and myself. I prefer to be teary then irritated when black clouds hit me.
I'm nicer when teary rather than angry. 🤬

I don't tend to cry, not properly, but I spent all morning crying (due to not being eligible for furlough), and I feel on the verge of tears most of the time anyway.

Not so much the crying and laughing stuff but DH and I are definitely taking it in turns to feel up and then down. Definitely having days where I feel terribly anxious and depressed and then other days when I’m feeling ok and don’t mind the situation so much.

Same here. Things that would normally raise a smile or a chuckle have resulted in proper belly laughs, often ending in tears. Crying never seems far away. I'm blaming my age and hormones, but realistically I know it's stress and tension.

Completely normal under the circumstances. I've been very up and down emotionally and almost every friend and colleague I've spoken to has said the same.