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 🤪

Yes, it's tough. Feel very defeated. Also questioning my decision to move abroad

I had anxiety at the beginning when we knew it was getting serious but now I'm just trying to get on with it

Yep me too - tearful one minute and then fine - can’t figure out the pattern !! Then wake up in the middle of the night thinking I have a fever and realise it’s just another 🥵 hot flushes - bloody Perimenopause not helping 🤬

Thank you for this thread, pjsandbaileys, it's not just you...

I wake up with a feeling of dread most mornings now and it's really not my norm. I dread logging on to my office to see who has come down with something, knowing that I can't do anything to help them, or help myself either. It's terribly sad reading any news articles, particularly knowing that people are dying alone way before their time.

This won't go on forever and I tell myself that, but the end will come with a high-cost tally and that's inescapable. We'll go on and re-build, re-format/re-calibrate our lives again and hopefully not go through this again nor be so ill-prepared for any future catastrophe. .

I'm so, so grateful to every poster on this thread, I thought Mumsnet humanity had gone for good. Positive vibes to you all...

I feel trapped. Logically I know I didn't go OUT any more than I can now but because I can't I want to.

I have a garden so can wander out there but I feel imprisoned.

I'm far more prone to tears or to anger over trivial things than I usually am. It's affecting my mental health and not in a good way.

@Mercedes519 jus to say, stress response is fight, flight or FREEZE. Very common especially for women to do third response of freeze and then have incredible guilt feeling they "should have done something/something more".

I work with people affected by violence and I really feel this response should be acknowledged a lot more, it's as common as the other 2.

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Fine here. Just feels like the summer holidays to be honest....

I have to add though we are quite introverted and staying home is the norm for us. So that's probably why we seem to feel ok

I think it's normal to feel as you do. I'm usually an anxious person but have felt so calm and positive since lockdown - which is NOT normal (for me).

Not crying, but v. up and down, and OTT furious reactions to whatsapp messages/lack of email responses when I expected (work related).

I did learn about muting whatsapp groups on another thread though, so there's a couple of unreasonably shouty groups that I've turned off.

One minute I feel okay, and tell myself it's nice to have the time to do stuff in the house and garden that I always wanted, the next I'm scrolling the news in a blind panic. I've had headaches and sore throats, and tightness in my chest and I'm sure it's anxiety.

This could be me - l'm fine and then suddenly l'm not. I'm very anxious about DS who works in a supermarket, either catching the virus or getting stabbed by someone robbing the place - thefts have gone through the roof since the lockdown and he's tall so they put him on the doors instead of the checkouts. I'm longing for life to get back to normal, it seems like a golden age and it was only last month! On the upside l'm getting lots done as l'm too wired to sit still for long.
I hate this.

Very stressed - pregnant with a pre existing anxiety disorder anyway but it’s all getting a bit much at the moment. Have my anatomy scan on Friday, will have to go alone and no idea how I’m going to do that. Under a lot of pressure at work at the moment. Worried about money. Crying most days...