Anyone else considering coming off Mumsnet for the foreseeable?

[PlasterIt]

Because I can't cope with all the 'this will never end, this will be life forever now, it's going to last until 2023/24'.

I've honestly realised that no where else social media wise is so doom and gloom. There really doesn't seem to be this complete end of the world sentiment anywhere else other than on here.

I have always loved coming on here and reading and contributing to threads but I honestly don't think I can anymore. My mental health and anxiety is becoming considerably worse from being here.

Is anyone else feeling this way?

[quote thecatfromjapan]@HazeyJaneII

Hello! Hope you and your family are well.
I think of you all the time.

Still waiting for delivery of some Christmas presents here. Can't decide whether that's a marker of grounded-time or whether it's simply final proof that all time has turned to a storm-mingled sea of indeterminacy!

Anyway - hope you're well and living happily, surrounded by love. ❤️❤️[/quote]
What a lovely thing to see this morning, inbetween a robot workout on YouTube with ds and juggling screens for lessons with dd1 and 2!
We are all as fine as can be in this bloody weird black hole we've disappeared into. Ds had been shielding since March, so I left my job, but he is well and I am just about clinging on to sanity!
I'm sure the Christmas presents will arrive sometime last year, delivered through a hole in the space time continuum.
Loads of love to you and yours ❤

Yes, it's true there are a fair number of generalisations about what specific age groups are doing. As there are in real life.. (although the sample size of opinions is narrowing there, as we speak to fewer and fewer people in rl! And yes I know, zoom, but....)

@OhCaptain

You can just go. It’s not an airport, you don’t have to announce your departure.

But it’s better when people do flounce properly, and in the proper topic

It’s one of the little MN traditions that seems to have waned

Oh no! has someone already said the airport thing.

I just roll my eyes at the hysterical ones (there's actually one today called THERE IS NOTHING IN MY CHILDREN'S LIVES) and feel glad I'm not those posters. If you find these posts actually influencing your perception then yes, best to stay away.

Some people are thriving off the drama

No doubt about that!
My elderly mother is one- she jumps on a bus into the city, only to cross the road and come straight back home again.
She loves all the fuss- hand gel on the bus, the sitting restrictions- joins in with worried looks- a huge day out for her.

This really made me laugh.

I get at least one belly laugh per day on here. Which is good because I can’t sit in an office with my colleagues and laugh there.

@HazeyJaneII

I didn't know about your H. ☹️
Think you are right about Christmas presents.
I'm sitting here also trying to work out a cunning plan on how to wrest time back into its customary order and shape.
Best I've come up with is ... a daily walk! So weird.

@NowellSingWe Suspect you might be someone I know wearing a new name. So sending a bit of love to you, too.

Me too. I've been on here for years, mainly because the atmosphere was always friendly and broadly positive, if occasionally robust. Now I feel as if I'm constantly opening threads, and backing away slowly with my hands up. And it's not just a case of hiding the Coronavirus topic - it feels as if the furious absolutism is spreading through everything.

Basically, I don't want to look at Active Conversations, and wonder if the end of the world is nigh and I just haven't noticed.

@thecatfromjapan
It's S (10, now diagnosed with a rare genetic condition which makes him vulnerable to Covid alongside his general awesomeness) rather than H...H is just dandy!
My coping mechanism seems to be too many mint club biscuits and coffee and wanging about on Mumsnet, Twitter and Facebook...(which is why I'd rather not leave, just not get sucked into the dark side)

@NowellSingWe
Sending you all the good things too...and trying to work out who you are!

@HazeyJaneII

Yes. I left in March, when it was making me feel dreadful. I came back, as it seemed to have settled down a bit. It's making me want to chew my arm off at the moment, so probably time for a break.

This is exactly what I did. I left just before lockdown 1 when speculation was at fever pitch and people were absolutely buzzing with talk of it. I only rejoined in Nov out of boredom of lockdown 2 and now with every thread I read, I wonder what the fuck I'm still doing here. People have truly lost their marbles. For every one lovely, heartwarming post/thread/response there are 20 cunts.

@RainingBatsAndFrogs

It would be better if ALL threads about COVID, including this one, stayed on the Corinavirus board so that people, including you OP, could avoid it!

@MNHQ can you moderate this more fiercely? Would it help?

I've queried this with the mods, however their line is that if someone is using the voting option on a topic, even is it is clearly one that should be on the covid board (even if there is not even a proper AIBU question in the post) they won't move it or say anything. So AIBU continues to be flooded with covid topics.

I think there's definitely a requirement for an 'AIBU Coronavirus' topic. Complete with vote if required. Can't be that difficult to do.

YANBU

I left all the FB community groups and stayed away from here during the first lockdown as it wasn’t doing me any favours.

I hid the coronavirus board, but threads are everywhere. I’ve been reporting them, some get moved, some don’t.

The amount of disablism that’s allowed to stand, especially in masks threads, upsets me quite a bit

I've hidden the corona topic but, unfortunately, CV has seeped into every facet of life so even seemingly non covid related issues are steeped in it.
Plus, even when you find an OP where it's not mentioned, some dickhead will be along shortly to ask 1) why are you out? That's not essential ... 2) what tier are you in ... 3) erm, are they in your household? Why are you seeing them then ... 4) omg, its people like you who are killing grannies ... and soooooo on, fucking endlessly.

@Plonque

I've hidden the corona topic but, unfortunately, CV has seeped into every facet of life so even seemingly non covid related issues are steeped in it. Plus, even when you find an OP where it's not mentioned, some dickhead will be along shortly to ask 1) why are you out? That's not essential ... 2) what tier are you in ... 3) erm, are they in your household? Why are you seeing them then ... 4) omg, its people like you who are killing grannies ... and soooooo on, fucking endlessly.

I have seen the 'killing grannies' thing so much over the last few hours, I think it might be time for the MN CV Bingo Card...

Has 'what part of you' made a comeback yet (as in whatpartofyouwhatpartofyouwhatpartofyou don't you understand?)

@Aixenprovence

Has 'what part of you' made a comeback yet (as in whatpartofyouwhatpartofyouwhatpartofyou don't you understand?)

Not seen that one yet. Lots of ' I can't believe the hysteria' where there isn't any though.

@Plonque
I came back after my mum died suddenly in June. Dh and I were both in shock, and despite the gnarly atmosphere which had made me want to leave, I knew that if I reached out into mumsnet I would find people who 'got it'....and I did. I came back with a completely different name, but it felt all wrong after 14 years of being Hazeyjane, so I changed to HazeyJaneII
There was a really argumentative thread where 3 of us (on opposing sides of the argument) all realised we had lost someone in the last few months - it was heartening to see that we were able to put aside differing points of view to be able to link over this connection.

I still prefer it to the Harry and Meghan stuff previously!

I'm sorry to hear about your mum
I agree this place can be good.
The only reason I'm still here is because I'm on a couple of supportive threads due to possible impending divorce. I have no one IRL to confide in about it so it's nice to have that.
I think I need to hide all topics except, maybe two. But there are still a lot of trolls in relationships sooo 🤷🏼‍♀️

I think I am coming off this for the foreseeable apart from style n beauty. And then not often. The dreaded C subject is infiltrating a lot of the general threads now despite me hiding the main thread, and it is frying my brain. The animosity, the hysteria, the judgement and the sheer nastiness, the shoehorning it in every thread how ever unrelated is too much. I wish admin would move all the related threads in the proper threads. I know that this thread is in AIBU too - perhaps this thread can be shifted to the main thread.