Lockdown ending - feeling depressed

[knickerthief1]

Is anyone else finding it hard to adjust to the idea of returning to a more normal life or AIBU? I feel like maybe I'm losing the plot! I've always had a good social life and an active life in general. I really thought I would struggle badly with my mental health during the lockdown but I've found I've adapted to it very well and have hardly left the house in the last 10 weeks. Now things are changing I can feel my mood plummeting. I've been working from home for the duration.

Dh and I talked about this last week and we both said we are loving the more laid back life, no pressure to go out, meet up with people or visit family and friends. YeAh I’ve missed my friends and have still been keeping in contact

We’ve already said that we won’t be rushing back to our old normality as we quite like this new relaxed pace.

I don't seem to suffer the same anxieties as I do usually since lockdown. And I'm pretty outgoing. I want to return to normal but also to retain certain features of lockdown life. I will try to do so.

I'm disabled so I never really went out for social reasons before lockdown. But I am terrified of being made to go back to the office full time. I've wanted to work from home for years and now that I've had a proper taste of it I don't think I could bear going back.

I THINK we will be given the option but my company was very anti-WFH before this and I'm not sure how much the old-fashioned men in charge have had their opinions changed.

Also, on a physical level, the lockdown has been better for me. I am an insomniac who now gets enough sleep (getting up at 8 instead of 6:15) and I have arthritis (in my 30s) which has eased off!

I do want to see people, just so tired of all the rushing as a single working parent!

I am an introvert in that I like staying in and I often dread socialising.

But I need structure for my mental health and lockdown has not provided any. Also WFH while trying to home-school is hardly relaxing. I am lacking time to myself, whether on my commute home or when the DC were at school and I folded washing in silence.

Also I am really done with all the walks near my house! Plus I miss sitting in a coffee shop on a Saturday with my book.

I like a slower pace of life but personally feel much more cheerful to have one or two low-key social plans coming up.

There is nothing wrong with some people finding positives in their lives over the past month. However, these posters are not policy makers, it is the government that are making decisions. And these decisions are swiftly taking England into no lock down. It is changing daily now.