Talk some sense into me please

[TalkSenseIntoMe]

So, looks like my DH will still be working despite lockdown restrictions (works in absolutely non-essential retail that is masquerading as essential) and my DC will still be going to nursery. I’m devastated. Feel like it’s inevitable that we will be exposed to the virus. I have severe health anxiety so have little perspective. We are not CEV but I’m still scared. I’m reading dreadful stories on here about people losing businesses etc, worries about home schooling, and all I can think about is how I wish my DH and DC weren’t ‘out there’. Utterly selfish, I know. We are lucky that my husband should still have a job at the end of this....that my DC will be mixing with kids their own age....that we don’t have the worry of how to home school. And yet...

Please talk some sense into me.

You don’t have to send them to nursery

I work from home and can’t have DC there at the same time.

@TalkSenseIntoMe sending her to nursery is your choice many of us are at home with the kids whilst working from home.
Have sympathy regarding DH but not nursery aged child who legally can stay at home.

I think you should be counting your blessing that you have a place at nursery for your child which will enable you both to keep working tbh.

Ach I’m sorry OP, the world has gone batshit and it is very easy to feel super anxious, but the reality is if none of you are in a vulnerable group, even if you got it, you would be unlikely to get very sick. Lockdown is to stop NHS getting overrun, but otherwise those of us who can have to try and keep working to hopefully reduce the scale of economic slump afterwards.

I’d stay of social media and news - or follow sane people like Tim Spector for a balanced perspective.

Many people are working from home with their small children that doesn’t mean they’re doing a particularly good job. Don’t make OP feel guilty about that. It could be the difference between losing a job and keeping it, which might be the difference between losing her home or not.

YANBU to be upset and worried @TalkSenseIntoMe. Your health anxiety is making it seem worse than it is, but I can understand why.

I’m sorry that’s probably not too helpful! Be kind to yourself.

You have already acknowledged it so presumably don’t need to have it pointed out that please stop being so dramatic. You are basically saying you are devastated because your husband has a job.

You are worried because of your health anxiety when the reality is the risk to your health if you were to contract the virus is low . Would it help to break it down into logical reasons why you have to do the things that are making you worry? For example your H has to work in order to continue to help provide for your family. So do you, and you cannot do so effectively with your child there so they have to go to nursery. The alternative would be you all 'safe' at home but perhaps with no income. Is that really a better option?