BBC News is my friend lying?

[Theodoreb]

She likes to make me anxious and as a sheilded person with two vulnerable dc I'm very nervous of lockdown ending and school re opening she's also a bit stupid and believes those fb pages which are fake.

She just told me that she watched bbc news and Boris Johnson gave a speech saying lockdown was being lifted slowly that construction workers can go back and buses are back on as normal tomorrow.

That person is NOT a friend - lying to you to make you upset and anxious? She is a sick person.

I agree with so many others that she is not a friend.
I know it is so hard when you have no one else to call a friend but please cut her off.
Are there any hobbies you have that you can join pages of on here, cooking for example.

Construction workers are being allowed back to work. She didnt lie about that.

Just tell her since it won't be happening she must have not understood what she read or heard.

I think some posters need to really think about what they're suggesting to an OP with strong mental health issues and crippling anxiety.

"Just put the news on" is not good advice for many people like the OP. The news is full of traumatic items, not just the state of the country during the COVID crisis, any of which could cause an increase in the OP's anxiety.

I agree with the posters saying your "friend" is no friend to you - whether she's made a mistake or is deliberately lying to you, she's winding you up, and that's not helpful to you either.

I suggest you cut contact with her if she's going to keep doing this - OR just ignore whatever she says about the situation and keep things on a trivial basis.

Very easy to get confused with so much going on - I work in construction and my wife and I were just half watching the same news bulletin. She said to me ‘what do they mean you can go back to work, when you’re still working anyway’ to which I replied ‘they were talking about Spain’

It's very easy to watch Boris's speech again. Watch the whole thing. Then ask yourself 'is there something she mentioned in that speech that is true, but sounds worrying taken out of proper context? Can I
rationalise it once I give it proper consideration? Or is she just lying to me to get me upset?'

All of Boris' speeches will be on iplayer so yo can watch them again yourself

You think this is a friend? Seriously get rid, and tell her to fuck off while you're at it.

This person is no friend. You don't need friends like this.

There was an article somewhere (maybe Sunday Times?) about possibilities being mooted for ending lockdown and it said Boris wants big building projects to be happening during this period. But that is a very long way from what your friend said. Perhaps she mixed that up with the Spain thing.

This is Boris' latest statement so to speak
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52262012

I work in construction. The wording on the guidance to construction workers was changed slightly towards the end of last week to make it more possible to work. Unfortunately the HSE are also taking about suing anyone not working 2m apart, which I support, but it hugely limits what activities can be carried out. My site guys are feeling extremely vulnerable and we are working a skeleton workforce on a scheme identified as nationally critical. Can’t get any face protection PPE of course, which doesn’t help, but absolutely right.

I cannot watch tv I have schizophrenia and tv triggers voices to start speaking to me. So I cannot watch the news the only tv I am able to watch is tv I know is safe as I have re watched it a 100 times but there are very few I watch Disney films, Star Trek, Star Wars and lord of the rings and Harry Potter and that is all I can actually watch so cannot watch the news myself new programs I am unfamiliar with cause added activity in my brain and when there is extra activity in my brain my psychosis starts.

I am the same with computer games on able to play ps1 games I have already played over and over again.

If I am having a very good week I will try something new which my mum has watched and already decided has no triggering topics for me.

Thank you for all the supportive comment I haven't confronted her I have just blocked her and will let her wonder why.

But I really do wish I was more social. My sisters (who I barely speak to) friend has been trying to make friends with me I think so will maybe let my guard down and see what happens.

And as for being lonely that's why I joined Mumsnet I don't post much but get a great deal of enjoyment from reading peoples posts. I feel so proud when someone has done something that they are proud of and I try to help others if I can this makes me feel less isolated and so much more connected to the world when reality is so easily snapped away from me and I can so easily lose all sense of connection to everything in this world.

So thank you for all the kind replies for those who don't understand why I don't watch the news or didn't find out myself please try to understand I did attempt to find out I searched google couldn't find nothing but being so anxious my brain kept coming up with excuses as to why she could be right and I couldn't find it. So I decided a quick way to find out and my anxiety needed speedy addressing was to ask here.

Thanks to all I have just blocked her I don't owe her a explanation and I have just mailed my sisters friend who has been trying to make friends with me.

Construction has not stopped and the buses are still running this government has allowed employers to male their own decisions about whether to close down. Many are still up and running

She's not your friend if she likes to make you feel anxious!

I don't even know you and I would like to give you a hug.

X posted thanks for all your posts and kindness.

"She likes to make me anxious"

She is absolutely, categorically, NOT your friend.

In Scotland construction workers were told to stop working unless they are working in an essential service eg building new hospitals, repairing old hospitals.

My husband has been off work since lockdown due to this, building sites were all told to close unless essential.

What do you get out of this friendship op?

Pressed post too quickly.

This person is not your friend she is playing on your vulnerability, I’d rather have no friends than a shit one like that!

She isn't’ a friend

Be careful of making friend with your sisters friend if your sister isn't kind to you.

And as for being lonely that's why I joined Mumsnet I don't post much but get a great deal of enjoyment from reading peoples posts. I feel so proud when someone has done something that they are proud of and I try to help others if I can this makes me feel less isolated and so much more connected to the world when reality is so easily snapped away from me and I can so easily lose all sense of connection to everything in this world.

That has made me well up a bit, and feel I ashamed for all the times I might have snapped a bit at people who are struggling with things that seem daft to me. What you just said, that could be any of us, at any time, there for the grace of God go all of us. Keep posting for support and ignore the posters (like me ) who occasionally seem snippy or lacking in empathy.

Leaving to one side the fake news she's peddling to you, "She likes to make me anxious" isn't good. This isn't a healthy friendship.