To just want things to be normal?

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I know it's stupid and selfish to think like this when everyone is having such a tough time and people are fighting for their lives and losing loved ones. I'm just having a tough time personally, and I feel like I could cope with it if there was some semblance of normality. I just want to be able to be with my kids... I want to see my mum (who lives in France)... I want to be able to go out for a walk as a family. And everything just feels so horrible and like it will never be okay again.

I need to pull myself together. Definitely BU.

I think this is why people " pop to the shops" trying to find normal.

Its bloody awful

I’m struggling at present and I totally get wanting to be normal again.

It's horrible and you're not being stupid or selfish.

YANBU, honesty if I actually stop and think about what's happening I just cry and you have a particularly awful situation. You aren't wrong to feel this way at all, it's shit and it's a while before there is anything to look forward to.

OP, YANBU at all. You've got a hell of a lot on your plate and it's totally understandable to feel the way you do.

You're doing exactly the right thing and it's really brave of you.

Hope the chemo goes as well as it possibly can.

Stages of grief. You'll get there, you just need to let yourself cycle through the stages.

I think IABU, by being essentially anti-social and grumpy and enjoying not having to deal with people!

But even I'm getting a bit hacked off now. It's silly things, like not being able to pop to a small coastal town near us and have a coffee at the beach kiosk, or pop for a pint in our local, and having to cook every bloody meal we eat ourselves because all the pubs, takeaways and restaurants are shut.

YANBU, it’s shit. Obviously worst for the people and workers who have or are helping others with the disease but shit for all groups of people

Oh god me too. My husband has moved out to keep us safe (key worker). I can’t believe this is happening. It’s horrible.

Chazp - it won't go on for 6 months. Maybe up to 8/10 weeks but virus or no virus, there will be civil unrest if they tried to maintain lockdown for months & months on end

I hope you are right!

Yanbu. I m not going through half that and I just want my normal life back. I miss my school and I miss my theatre group and my dd s birthday has been really low level as her party would have been last week.
I work in England but I m not English and I dont know when I ll see my parents (late 70s) again.
It s so shit for everyone but good luck with chemo xx

Me too OP, i still can't believe we can't just walk into a supermarket when we like and browse like we used to. It's a very odd world right now 😔