Covid competitiveness?

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Has anyone else noticed this.

When that (horrendous) subject is mentioned I feel like sometimes people compete in a “I had it 3 times” “well I had it 6 times” and then will go on to describe their symptoms - which I really couldn’t care less about as I’m sure most of us had it at some point, like no Jane I don’t care you lost your sense of taste for a week.

I haven't noticed it particularly with covid but it's always been that way with illnesses. About 70% of them will have genuine health problems but the rest are the worried well, are attention seeking or are trying to play ill health top trumps.

although I do wonder sometimes that if we were all a bit more sympathetic towards each other then maybe people wouldn't feel the need to exaggerate so much.

You sound absolutely ridiculous and like you perhaps need to take your own advice.

People are still getting Covid and it's making them unwell, so of course it's going to come up in conversation among those people affected, particularly if it's causing them to miss work or social events.

People like to talk about themselves, I don't think it's any deeper than that.

I haven't experienced this, if anything I would think it would be the opposite. Who would be proud to have a crappy immune system

Also you have to remember the pandemic was a major event that affected everybody.. of course we will all have at least one story about it!
I've only had it once but I was very ill and only avoided hospital admission because the criteria kept changing (due to lack of beds).
I'd never been really ill before so it was genuinely terrifying.
Also was nursing on the wards throughout so it made a major impact on my mental health as well.

The amount of ignorance ( and lack of empathy) round this issue is staggering.

I know quite a few medical professionals who say they still are not at the bottom of the implications. No one who has any actual knowledge is being dismissive.

Maybe it isn’t pride?

Well that's true, I thought by competitive pride was implied, but it could be trying to be a victim instead. Whatever the reason, very weird and I have never experienced it

Does that “many people” include you by any chance?

What about the remainder for whom it was not just a flu? Because if you open your eyes beyond the perimeter of your own backyard you will find they exist. And why would the fact they - or indeed anyone with empathy- might want to discuss that indicate a need for “ psychological help” with their “ obsession?” People like to talk about things that impacted them - and indeed many forms of psychological help do involve talking about it. It’s a healthy response to processing.

What is far more psychologically unhealthy are the people who for their own reasons can’t grapple with it and need to deny, deny, dismiss, dismiss and sweep it under the carpet. What ails them I wonder? Or are some people really just that lacking in empathy they just don’t care if it didn’t affect them? I mean there are people with “problems” and then people with real personality problems.

Oh my MIL absolutely loves a bit of Covid one upping!
She's still regularly testing & seems almost gleeful if she has it.😐

Some people just very competitive in absolutely everything

you say ‘bloody covid - 3rd time I’ve had it’ they reply ‘ we’ve had it 14 times and Sallie-Jayne looks like she’s starting again’

you say ‘had a 8 hour labour with billie-Jean’ they reply ‘ohhh I had a 10hout labour with Jim Bob’

you say - had to wait in a&e for 6 hours with my broken wrist - they say ‘I had to wait 10 hours with mine’

you say ‘so proud of martha she got 90 in her grade 1 flute’ they say ‘Maggie may got 91 in hers when she was 6’

you say ‘sam starting talking when he was 3 - hadn’t stopped since ‘ they say ‘Derek talked in full sentences at 2 years, 2 months and 28days…’

just ignore and don’t let them get you down!!!! having to constantly compare yourself and always be better or worse off than everyone else just highlights how insecure they are!!!!!