The positive mental health thread - part 4

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Keeping it positive, keeping our sanity, people 👍

@roussette aww how lovely! 😍

Hi everyone, found you all 👋. Place marking for later as I find reading on my phone tedious.

Had a good day, wfh, did a bit in the garden, been on my 🚲 near the front door - not going to cook dinner band motivate DD to bake a cake with me.

Looking forward to reading what everyone has been up to later on a bigger screen 📺.

Now not not 😂.

And not band 😂😂😂. Said I found it tedious 🤷🏻‍♀️.

Another one feeling a bit better following the lockdown, is it still true that over 80% have mild or no symptoms, press just seem to show awful stories rather than encouraging ones, but as DH said that doesn't make headlines. Still have a two week old on and off sore throat and sniffles but tio scared to use the Paracetomol in case we need them

This thread is amazing.

Loving the alpacas! Took ds to hit a ball around in a recreation ground behind our house- apart from a couple of others 100 yards from us we had it to ourselves. Then went for a lovely sunny walk in the cool fresh air past the allotments and round the deathly quiet roads. Now going to have my favourite salmon stir fry for dinner and some cheeky Cadbury’s fingers!

Ooh @Bunnyflop what do you put in your stir fry? Rice or noodles?

@m0reginplease So the stir fry part is chopped salmon fillet, chopped ginger, spring onions, pak Choi etc, all stir fried in sesame oil with Blue Dragon sweet chilli and garlic stir fry sauce, chucked on a plate with Thai jasmine rice. Nothing too high falutin’!

Just had a mini meltdown because OH is still working, TBH, I think I needed a meltdown to let it out and come back fighting, so it’s probably not before time!

Loving all of your positive stories, I’ll be back later with a little snippet, once I’m done with my pity party for one....

Mumsnet has seemed so much more positive (the coronavirus board) today that I dared to linger after somebody posted something quite upbeat. Why do people always insist on posting doom and gloom replies? I’m all for information and statistics and facts to help me make decisions but with people just being negative and acting like it’s going to be the end of the world with no substantiated evidence really gets my anxiety up!

I feel like this is my only online safe haven.

@Millie2013 I had a proper meltdowny wobble and wept all over DH on Sunday - I feel much better for it though and more positive. Sometimes you just have to let it out...

high fives @Bunnyflop**

Yum!!

OMG for the first time in days I have just looked at the Daily Mail online.

Dear god how is that rag still going? Screaming dreadful panic inducing headlines and yet still the Sidebar of Shame.

Hurried back to this positive thread.

@GypsyWanderer I've been wondering if there might be some "professional" trouble makers to whip up the panic?!

Mumsnet is driving me mad today. Thank goodness for this thread. I have felt quite panicky today and have stayed away from the news but I still couldn't help getting weepy. I think I'm mainly tired.

Positives from today:

We are a day closer to this ending
My neighbour offered me a load of veg plants. She put them in my garden and I won't handle them for a few days. We chatted for a while 3m apart later and I appreciated the contact so much. It will be poignant harvesting things later in the year but the worst will have passed by then.
I used my one walk to head down to the nearest river. I saw no one there so I sat there for an hour. I absolutely wouldn't stay that long if there was anyone around but it was just me and some sheep nearby the whole time. It did my soul so much good.
I had a lovely chat on the phone with an isolated person in a nearby nursing home. She called me lovey and we chatted about knitting. I'm to talk to someone else tomorrow and when he picks up the phone I'm to use a silly code word so he knows I'm safe to talk to.

I am having a rethink about my whole life. I am feeling very drawn to becoming a counsellor or therapist. I love helping people. My regret right now is that I can't offer therapy sessions over Skype. I have a psychology degree and a couple of other things on my cv that make me think I could possibly get a spot on a doctorate course somewhere. It needs more thought but it would be lovely to maybe be able to help people off the back of this crisis.

You know what Minesa I also looked at it and put on an analytical hat and saw a lot of it was lies. Annoyingly tho a lot of people lack critical thinking.

@tobee you might be right there.

I keep reminding myself unless it is an actual fact, I have the choice whether to believe And internalise positive or negative comments.

I felt panicky too today as we had an update meeting about the covid at work (hospital) & I just felt my chest get tight as I sat there.
I'm not watching the news, only hearing updates at work & on Facebook.

I feel lonely except for my cat as I live alone & ive got a headache tonight probably hormonal but keep worrying it's the virus.
I will phone my sister & text friends later.

A good day today. Did some shopping and it was very quiet and respectful. Even managed to score a pack of loo roll (we did need it). I felt like a hunter-gatherer dragging home a bison.

I spent the afternoon finishing The Mirror and The Light, and now I’m cooking a roast for us all to enjoy.

A good day.

I had a "House Party" chat with my best friend today we're going to do the virtual pub quiz on Facebook on Thursday. I'm also playing online Scrabble with my favourite colleague. I am sooo shit at Scramble, she's loving it!

Helpful Kittens were actually very helpful today and slept all day 😸

This is a lovely story of a 90 year old surviving the virus

www.kiro7.com/news/eastside-news/90-year-old-kirkland-woman-survives-coronavirus-reunites-with-family/76GATGHI3BCGHLI4ZTXPJUOPUM/?fbclid=IwAR3N91DH9jhhOBkmzHMIEVST3KZXiAkK12oEtADW9we8ShIG_qB3BBp5R38

@noooblerooble your walk sounds divine!!

With regards the mail and other rags, sensationalist grim stories put the fear of god into people and keep them coming back to see what the next update is, it’s what keeps them going! Don’t feed the monster!

@bunnyflop your bunny is so beautiful! I would like more pictures please!

I am at home! Still have the pneumonia but stable enough with nebulisers and antibiotics at home. So happy to see the baby and dd and DH.

I have deleted all news and social media off my phone last week and I cannot tell you how immensely it has helped

But I heard that new infections in Italy have slowed down. That's surely great news?

Ugh,so my son is now in bed again,his cough defo doesn't seem to be a dry one...he told me he was coughing stuff up! Even so,it's been a LONG 24 hours.

I'm so so tired of being worried about everything....not being able to read the Guardian without getting scared,avoiding posts on Mumsnet,the final 9 weeks of my pregnancy and how this situation will effect my pregnancy,birth,postnatal stay...just exhausted.

Anyone want to join me in thinking that if we manage to get this thing locked down in the next 8 weeks,things might begin to return to normal.

Positive thoughts people!