How’s your head?

[Wheresmymind]

How is everyone feeling?
My mind is in a funny place at the moment and wondering if it’s just me?
All the virus and lockdown troubles obviously, but also with talk of a great reset etc, I’m not coping well with all the changes and how life is going to be and my mind keeps going to the worst case scenarios and how the future will be for my family. I just want the old life and can cope if I know it’s coming back more or less even if In a couple of years. It’s more reading about the workings of the great reset.
Am I going crazy, please help me get some perspective 🙏

Just me then 😒

I'm not sure what you mean by the great reset so I had to go do a quick Google.

I'm not day-to-day bothered but yes, I would like to know what is going to happen and what the future will look like. I'd like to think that this would be enough to push people towards being a bit more thoughtful about the earth etc but I think that's unlikely. Too many selfish folk, too many greedy billionaires, etc.

I feel the same OP, I still can't quite believe this is our lives now and there's no end in sight

Not for the first time, I'm reminded of the alcoholics' or serenity prayer (I'm not religious, quite the opposite, but it still resonates with me as a useful tool for getting perspective on things).

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change
The courage to change the things I can
And the wisdom to know the difference.

This is one of the things we cannot change, and being able to accept it and just go with the flow will help immeasurably. Accepting that nothing can be planned with any certainty is a huge ask, and uncertainty itself is very stressful for most people.

But there will be an end to it, there always is.

I'm so safe I want to kill myself. Ironically.

No complaints...

In all seriousness though, very up and down. I can't see when normal will happen again and that's hard.

@kingpingu I hope you are being sarcastic but if not, I hope you keep safe and have support around you.

I've woken up feeling worse this morning. I haven't slept well. Essentially for us nothing much changes. We work in the food retail sector so our jobs are relatively safe.
It's the lack of control I have which is what I'm struggling with. I feel sick and anxious and scared. For the pp hoping that everyone will be more thoughtful there was a lot of that last time round from customers but there was a lot of anger and vitriol aimed at shop staff and I'm dreading that.

The Great Reset is a conspiracy theory. If you’re being bombarded by it you need to hide your social media friends sharing that bollocks and not go searching for it.

Literally not one person on my SM is sharing that shit.

I'm normally busy with kids, work, husband and family, plus my hobbies, and pretty ok mentally.

Now I find myself near to tears pretty often. It's so unlike me, I don't know myself anymore. I hate all this and wish it would end.

I’m ok. I shouldn’t be, but I am.

Maybe it’s the citalopram.

The hardships we suffer can differ from moment to moment, person to person, country to country.

I’m home alone with the cats today and going to enjoy a nice shower & a morning lying in bed. That’s good enough right now.

Take every opportunity because this isn’t going away any time soon.

I would like to end with an inspiring quote about worrying not changing anything, but worrying sometimes can help us prepare to face our fears or find our courage.

I feel anxious, because I don't do well with grey areas. I need things to be black and white. So at the moment, not sure if dh will be going to work as not confirmed if his workplace can stay open, not sure what lockdown will mean while the dc are still going to school. Absolutely sure we won't be able to see parents in law before Xmas as they're in another part of the UK, so that's really getting me down and the kids are desperate to see them, especially as they've both got other health issues, time is precious and this year has been crap.

I'm ok too, probably because I'll still be able to go out to work and DD will still go to school (for the time being). We don't really go out so not a lot will change for us.
For those who are struggling, please form a bubble so you have some social support and take things day by day. I really would not dwell on the future (if possible) because aside from ourselves, there is not a lot we can control.

Not to take away from the people who have been furloughed previously (and completely understanding of the financial implications for people) but I sometimes wish my place of work would shut. It would be terrible for my mental health I can see that but I just want to hibernate until this is all over.

The news hit me harder than I thought to be honest as I could see it coming.

I’m worried about the economy and the future. Worried for friends in hospitality and similar industries.

I was so naive back in March everything would be back to normal by now

*thinking everything would would be back to normal by now

My head isnt great op. I'm struggling with restrictions and weather and life with 3 under 4. It's all so hamster wheel - ish. I don't do well this time of year anyway. Dark evenings. Ugh.
But I do feel the covid restrictions are a lot of my problem. You're not alone x

@ForTheLoveOfCatFood

*thinking everything would would be back to normal by now

You weren't alone. I was thinking by mid July we'd be back in schools and life as normal. I'm kind of glad I didn't know we would be like this 9 months down the line with no end in site as I'm not sure I'd have coped.

Yes, it’s definitely the lack of control and not knowing where all this is headed isn’t it. It’s not massively the virus itself (although obviously of a concern) its the future financially and so on...for the country and the world really. I don’t like change as it is and found myself looking at Halloween pictures last year and thinking how completely different life was then in so many ways and how I even felt differently inside. Tired of being scared now and switching between anxiety for my daughters future but also a kind of flatness of ‘What’s the point’
I don’t know why I keep thinking of the ‘Old life’ as being over and gone, that’s the part I can’t cope way, it’s a strange feeling I have, but things will get back to normal, won’t they?

Feels grotty today. Reintroduction of lock down although school / nursery not shut to us like last time.

The suppression feeling is not nice although I will follow it and get the issues facing us.

@Merryoldgoat But it isn’t apparently, it’s real and in process, after reading a thread on here, I researched last night, the great reset itself isn’t a conspiracy theory as that’s their plan from what I can see. I don’t understand any of this.

left climbing center nearly in tears this morning. Just got ds back on track with his mental health. It's such a fantastic activity. This is shit for teenagers

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