To think lockdown is making people sick.

[Melonslicexx]

I mean alot of people. I have never felt anxious like I do in my life. I'm on edge. I'm panicky.

My best mate who has suffered with her mental health said she didn't want to be here anymore the other day but she's pushing through.

I can't describe how I feel at the moment. It's horrible. So

Vote not unreasonable if you feel ill due to lockdown

Or you are unreasonable if you feel fine.

I am hoping to feel less alone. As to be honest I feel scared and I don't know how to see the happiness in life or relax again.

I am sure there are many people for whom it is a lot worse, especially if they cannot see older/sick relatives, and for those who could not have a normal funeral for someone who died. I am someone for whom there have been upsides, especially not commuting each day or having a precise time to need to get up.

YANBU

I was already suffering from depression and anxiety, I have now lost my job. Every day is just hopeless. My dad has cancer and not been able to get the chemo he needs. I hate life. If I didn’t have kids I’d kill myself.

Just bought some Flexiseq in the hope of some relief from knee pain. So stiff and painful especially when walking downhill. Never had this before lockdown

I feel horrible too - things are open but they're not really open. The idea we all had that lockdown was temporary and things would return to "normal" has been crushed with the actual reopening of things. So far I've had a hair appointment with somebody dressed as a serial killer and a meal out behind a perspex screen. It's like a mockery of normal life. A life with all the joy sucked out of it.

mbosnz please ignore if this is too personal, but can I ask what kind of treatment your daughter had that helped her?

I have two kids and I agree with all you said OP. I have that feeling like I just want to hide under the duvet for a week

Working my way through the thread and you are saying exactly how I feel OP

Like I can’t get happy - even now parks etc are open and I could do normal things I feel like I have no energy. Like everything is hard. Like life is a walk through quick sand. Nothing is cheering me up and I am losing myself.

I feel like this too. I was incredibly anxious earlier on in lockdown, then felt a bit better but now I feel completely hopeless. I’m frightened about getting back to normal - I’m frightened to do every day, normal things. I am not like this usually. I am struggling with managing awful anxiety about returning to school in September (secondary school teacher) but am also desperate for DD (9) to get back to normal - she’s an only child who struggles with communication, so FaceTime/Zoom etc has been really tricky for her when maintaining contact with friends and relatives. I’m anxious about her being miles behind her classmates (she has various learning issues, too) so, like many others, I’ve been trying to wfh and teach her and I’m shit at it. I’m desperately missing ‘normal’ life - I love my job, I love my students, I love whizzing off to work in my car with that sense of being occupied and busy with something to think about other than tidying up or trying to entertain a child who struggles to entertain herself. Then I feel bad for wanting to not be with DD, who is a poppet, really.

I just feel shit, tearful and frightened, really.

It's a global mh crisis. We all suffer. It is terrible.

I am a member of an anemic group and people's oxygen levels were dropping with masks

Are you sure this is correct op as I have seen a few clips showing this isn't the case?

Yes. The who said the other day aysmptomatic people do not spread it afterall
Not entirely convinced of this after 73 cases on a farm with only one person displaying symptoms.

The who then backtracked pretty quickly as I recall. Plus it's very difficult to tell an asymptomatic prrson from a pre symptomatic one.

I read that too @Porcupineinwaiting

I feel pretty awful. I just want to be on my own. I'm ASD and so are my kids. I also have my elderly mum living with us in a small flat with no garden.

I'm looking after the three of them and I have a permanent headache. Both kids can't cope with home schooling, causing stress and upset, and I've been working in my local hospital since the beginning of lockdown and am totally and utterly overloaded. I'm sleeping badly as my kids are. I just want a day off, alone, with no one around.

I suffer from anxiety anyway, and it's just so high at the moment.

I voted YABU as per OP instructions because I've been coping well. But, I don't think anyone who is feeling negatively affected is really BU at all. I predicted it would cause a big MH crisis at the beginning and I'm not at all surprised. I just hope people can recover. It's been really shit for so many people.

The thing is, I’m not frightened and I don’t have mega stress like lost jobs or anything like that to worry about. It’s the everyday things that are dragging me down. I would normally tidy up if I get a minute but today I just thought I’m not doing it! It’s a mess again in ten minutes I’m not even exaggerating.

I've been drinking a bit more alcohol than usual and eating more convenience type food so I imagine I'm less healthy. I do feel more sluggish. I think when I go back to work in August and the dc are back in school I'll snap out of it though