The 'Positive Mental Health' Corona virus thread Part II

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I hope that RapidRainbow does not mind me starting Part II of the thread - if you do let me know & I'll ask for it to be deleted.

It would just be a shame to not carry on as this is such a positive place.

Part I is here:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/3821799-The-Positive-Mental-Health-Corona-virus-thread?msgid=93901971

@Arcadia - me too. And Twitter app. Watched the 10 minute BBC bulletin at 1pm today and that's my lot.

Pineapple, there’s lots of online resources if that helps

Eg www.getselfhelp.co.uk/step1.htm

No sun in north London! Everyone else seems to have it.

It's been a beautiful day here in the South East. I've had the windows open and can hear the birds singing.

Thanks, @AutumnRose1, i have a sheet from the GP with links to lots of sites too. I'm a big Headspace app fan, it's really good and I just need to get back into the habit of 10 minutes daily time out and meditation.

Hanging out here with you guys and ignoring the rest of it helps too.

🎤 why does it always rain on me
Is it because I lied when I was 17?🎤

It’s only a wee bit, but still.

I am doing a stained glass colouring book while listening to music.

I just had to cancel a big family party but I emphasised that it was only a postponement (God knows we'll need a party when this is all over!). The man at the venue was so lovely, I nearly cried!

Sort of feel we're self-isolating already. Not helped by miserable weather. We've binge-watched the first series of Race Around the World which was just brilliant.

Visited MIL this morning. She's being very pragmatic about possibly being "confined to barracks". We said she could stay with us and I know BIL would say the same but she's having none of it, God love her

In properly positive news, we popped into a small local pet shop and the owner said they'd been frantically busy all weekend. So hopefully some of the small independents can do well out of this, as well as the sanitizer manufacturers who must be rubbing their hands together

I couldn't agree more about this thread being an absolute godsend! It's the only thing I look at on Mumsnet now. I've also deleted Facebook - there was so much rubbish on there, and I'd find myself scrolling through and getting increasingly upset!
I need to rediscover all the things I used to do before I had social media! Got my old Kindle on charge to see if I can resurrect it, and am working on an old long-abandoned cross stitch project. DH is potting on some tomato seedlings in the kitchen ("its too wet outside") - I dread to think what state it's going to be in when he's finished!
Ah, yes, puppy toilet training. Our command is "go wee" - it's been a long haul but I think I can finally think seriously about cleaning the carpet properly instead of just spot cleaning the accidents!

Hello can I join? I’m a single mommy of a 2 year old asthmatic boy and I’m expecting my 2nd in May. I’m really trying to stay positive

Apologies for the overdose of exclamation marks - I must have used up my quota for the week...

I've lost it today. Can't be positive any more. My parents can't cope with self isolating for twelve weeks. They just can't. The thought of my DD losing her beloved granny. I just can't cope any more.

I need to say a huge thank you to @PineappleDanish for posting this link upthread:

www.annamathur.com/dealing-with-coronavirus-anxiety/

It's really helped me. I did CBT a couple pf years ago following trauma from a difficult birth. I'm a worried anyway (particularly around health). Anyway this was a great refresher for me and I've read through it a few times, whenever I felt the anxiety creeping in. I love the mantra 'Everything is okay now. And ‘now’ is the only thing that is real’.

I uninstalled the Twitter and BBC news apps from my phone which also has helped tremendously. I'm only looking at this thread on Mumsnet and I've started re-reading Harry Potter, which is free on Kindle!

I have it bookmarked. It's so easy to get caught up in the ifs and buts and maybes and perhaps. One day at a time. We'll get through this and it might be a rough few months but the overwhelming majority of us will be OK.

I just can't with social media anymore.
I'm on the brink of deleting facebook and twitter.
YES, it's not nice, but for some people noting will do unless it's worst case scenario and doomsday.
I'm actually quite anxious and tearful after some of what I have read today.

Well, did my run today and came 23rd - not displeased with that. However there was a mixup on the course and we all got sent the wrong way, so we were 1.5k short of the distance we were supposed to be doing 🤦‍♀️ So I’m a bit gutted... but it was good to be out, good to hear the birds, good to be with people (even if we were all chuntering a little!)

Hoping to be able to go back next weekend and run the full route, while the arrows are still spray painted onto the grass! Then I’ll really feel like I’ve earned my medal. I took a little bottle of hand sanitiser in my pocket and used it a couple of times, but apart from that and some careful handwashing I didn’t take any special precautions.

Am on the website linked above now. It's already helping me to calm down- thank you!

I’ve been snoozing and unfollowing people on Facebook - I can’t be doing with it. It’s just not helpful.

I needed to read this. I catastrophise everything normally but this last two weeks my heart rate is through the roof, I can’t eat or sleep.

Well done @Spudlet that's fantastic!

My mum and step dad have cancelled the trip to a uk treehouse that we were all taking next weekend to celebrate their birthdays, and decided they don't want us to see them atm. It's made me really sad, but it's their prerogative to do what works for them so I'll respect that.

I think I've a bout of vertigo coming on. As a professional dog walker it makes life very hard and I'm quite worried about managing to get into my GP for some medication ASAP.

Thank you PineappleDanish that’s an excellent link. I will study it .

The sun came out this afternoon. I made some cakes, walked in the garden, saw all the new life emerging from a very wet soil.

We will get through this.

I have been reading this thread and it's truly helped me so much. I have health anxiety and an obsessive nature so reading some calmer and more positive comments has genuinely been a god send.

So thank you

I’ve snoozed a load of drama llamas on Facebook. I’m not in denial, I’d just rather get the facts, from reliable sources and not loaded with emotional language

I feel better already for doing this :)

I promise I'm not spamming this thread, but I'd also like to thank @PineappleDanish for that link. I think it's going to be a huge help.

This is a very encouraging breakthrough in the medical research:
nltimes.nl/2020/03/14/dutch-researchers-first-find-covid-19-antibodies-report
It makes me so much calmer knowing that very clever all around the world are working tirelessly on this. And how thankful we can be that we live in times where we are so advanced with medical knowledge.

Thank you @peoplepleaser1! Take care of yourself, we had lots of colleagues at my former workplace who came down with labyrinthitis and I know it was horrible for them I hope you can get on top of it quickly before it takes hold

Just been chatting to my mum on FaceTime. She can get very anxious about health matters but was very upbeat about this - she’s a nurse (albeit 8 days from retirement), and we have family members who’ll really be at risk from this thing. But she won’t let it get to her and so nor will I.

The news in that link is wonderful Honestly. Thank you so much for posting that.