Corona fatigue...is it just me?

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I have developed corona fatigue such that I am fed up with watching the relentless news and fed up with the life restrictions imposed. I did quite well for the first 3 weeks but now I am struggling much more to cope especially when I hear of restrictions potentially lasting a lot longer, possibly up to 2 years even.

There is relentless positivity around me about how people are loving lockdown or at least coping really well.

I don't have small children and I'm not on my own or in an abusive relationship but I'm still struggling - is it just me?

for all who are struggling with this right now, hang in there with me

I suppose I don't understand how people can relish the samey-ness of it with no novelty or future plans

I am making lots of future plans, maybe that's what's helping? I've done an itinerary for a Europe train trip, will be planning to move away, made a list of places to visit/restaurants to try and looking forward to starting our first IVF round once the clinic is open again, so much to look forward to, because this will end.

I'm thinking of this as just a 'pause' - and having this time feels like a privilege more than a curse. But I will say I'm lucky to be in good health, financially fine, with no dependants to worry about.

Seeing how hard so many people have it is making me feel immensely grateful.

This is why the scientists kept saying they were waiting until necessary for lockdown when people were shouting for it. It is not an easy thing to endure and people have proven that they cannot do it for a long time without breaking the rules, right at the peak.
The same people screaming out the government for not locking down earlier because they wanted a week off work are now the same people pissing about ignoring social distancing because it is too hard!

Thanks Snog to you too!

I live near an A road - last month it was dead. Today I went for a walk and walked along the A road for bit - it was much much busier- like a normal midweek, mid-afternoon day. You are obviously not the only one!

I am so bored of it now. I know it’s the right thing to do. I do understand that and as someone with chronic health conditions I really do get it. But it’s so fucking dull and shit. It really is. Even if you don’t have the added worries that many do of actually losing someone to this horrible disease or living with an arsehole. The whole thing is just miserable.

I actually woke up in the middle of the night last night feeling incredibly claustrophobic and wanting to go out for a walk round the streets in my pjs. Which is ridiculous as I have been walking about and getting exercise etc anyway - and of course I didn’t go out. I’m just over it all.

I think the media are now doing more harm than good. Every news programme is nothing but Covid and they're just scratching around trying to find ever more feeble "reports" to broadcast. Plus all the extra programmes about covid. It's becoming relentless drivel. You know the news is devalued when mindless posts of social media get airtime on prime time TV news programmes.

Yes, bring us the latest NEWS, but lets also have news about other things too! We're suffering a crash in the stock market that's the biggest in living memory, but it never gets a mention despite it being likely to ruin the pensions of today's workers, and increase the likelihood of business collapse. In any other time, it would have been all over the news, now it never gets mentioned.

The same people screaming out the government for not locking down earlier because they wanted a week off work are now the same people pissing about ignoring social distancing because it is too hard!

Yep, plenty of hypocrites around. They want everyone else to "suffer" but think they're special and don't have to comply. Just like all the leftie hoards wanting other people to pay more tax, not them!

I understand I’ve found it really hard to maintain some kind of routine at home. I’ve ordered new clothes so me and dd get dressed everyday! I don’t watch the daily briefings as it’s all the same questions, when is it going to end? Nobody knows, that’s what makes this so mentally difficult, that and the rising death toll.

On the positive side I’ve started doing a lot more crafting in the evenings and watching films with dd. We are planning on growing our own potatoes and fruit and I’m gradually decluttering.

The clothes are because dd has had a growth spurt and lacked casual clothing and I mainly have work clothes with very few casual clothes. I didn’t mean it to sound like we had no clothes lol!

Agree @Borkins

I am hating every single minute of it for every possible reason.

I have just been discharged by the hospital department I have been treated by over the past 8 months. By telephone. "Sorry, but we will have to discharge you because of Covid. You need an MRI scan, but you'll have to go back on the list in three months' time."

So what am I supposed to do now? I did say it is not reasonable to live with the degree of pain I am in. They basically said they were sorry to hear it, but it was bad luck.

I will be costing the NHS a fortune in months to come, once I have meanwhile become addicted to the alcohol and prescription drugs that just about take the edge off it, temporarily. Plus I'll still need the MRI scan and the consulations to go with it.

I'm feeling blue today, maybe because of the weather, maybe because a friends mum passed away recently (noncovid but no funeral), but also I think maybe even tho we expected a lockdown extension maybe it's a new bit of loss/sadness to process

Agree I’m fed up of it too, I just want it to be over. It’s constant relentless misery and some threads on here don’t help, the endless focus on death, How it will last forever, and now we may be through the peak some have moved onto predicting the second peak. You can only listen or read so much of it before you just have to disengage.

Completely fed up. I m trying to help my daughter catch up as she s behind in maths/reading but it’s like hitting my head against a brick wall. I m done crafting, baking, online sports and I m now out of ideas. Heartbreakingly, my mother in law died last Tuesday from corona virus, and my husband, brother and father in law were nt allowed to say goodbye. She fell over at home, went into hospital and three weeks later she was dead, she must have caught it in hospital or from paramedics as she d self isolated for the weeks before. We re heartbroken.

I feel quite trapped by it all even though I'm very lucky and in no horrid circumstances, said the same in a virtual chat this morning and everyone else on the chat was fine and enjoying it. Now I feel isolated and useless on top of everything else!

Yes, I think it is the trapped feeling too.

I am an introvert too. I like being at home, but I also like my freedom to go and browse the shops, have a coffee in Costa while reading my book. Usually on my own. Those freedoms are gone at the moment.

I also want back the freedom to chat to people I know in the street without feeling as though we have to treat each other like lepers. Nor do I like being treated like a leper if I so much as sneeze while I am out of the house.

I want the freedom to go and visit my elderly parents (who are shielded) before it really is too late. I couldn't go in January/February as I usually do because I was ill with a chest infection myself (could it have been Covid

I guess we never really appreciate what we have until it is gone.

I'm sick of the news on TV and radio being about nothing but Corona. I know it's going to be the biggest story for months/years but it's the same issues over and over again. Lack of PPE, lack of testing, when will lockdown be lifted etc etc.

I love the idea of being able to go to sleep for 6 months and wake up when we've moved on from this phase of it.

I don't mean to dismiss, minimise or discount the suffering, hardships, stress and anxiety we are all experiencing in one way or another.

It would be nice if we could have one day a week when we didn't talk about it and it wasn't on the news 24/7 and we all pretended it wasn't happening, just to have a little break.

I stopped watching the news ages ago which has helped a great deal but, I'm tired of all of it. The first few weeks I would wake up and my first thoughts would be coronavirus. Now I'm waking up and not even thinking about it anymore which is sad because it means I've just accepted this sad existence.
I was supposed to get married this week, we even managed to bring the date forward out of desperation to get married, but the same day we changed it was the same day lockdown was announced.
We had a death in the family this week (non covid related) but it was sudden and made worse because of the current situation, we can't even console other family members.
I'm just venting but I know I have to be grateful that so far, we're all in good health but it's getting harder everyday and I don't know how we'll get back to how we were before this.

I was fatigued by the morning 24th March. I hear you OP.

There is definitely a thing called 'compassion fatigue' which sounds similar. I guess it is maybe a way of coping with all the emotion of it all in the press etc, I feel the same sometimes. All the endless speculation and drama doesn't help in the news etc

It’s the relentlessness, how it all stretches into the future with no end in sight. I live alone, have lost my job, no furlough or UC, everything feels futile and energy-sapping. Day time TV is even worse than usual if that’s possible, lots of people (“celebs”??) video calling from home about how much they’re creating/baking/exercising, blah blah blah, it’s just drivel. it’s so hard not being able to be with anybody, not be able to make plans etc, I think this year is pretty much a write-off and there’s still 8 months to endure

@Lycidas drug trials take years not weeks, who's telling all those lies?

I'm really feeling it today. Shielding household and we started early so this week is our sixth week in without leaving the house or garden (for which I ma very grateful). I'm tired of having to ask someone else to do every little thing for me (Post a letter, get milk), tired of quarantining everything that comes in to the house, tired of not being able to choose my own shopping, and very very tired of not being able to go for a walk.

And tired of the assumption that everyone in the shielding group was on death's door anyway, isn't important and can happily stay in for the next 18 months without anyone being at all bothered. "Cocooning" = "Ignoring"

Whatever the government's rights or wrongs with this, Boris got it absolutely right when he said that timing was crucial, because if we locked down too early, people would get fed up at the crucial time.

Hopefully, we are 'flattening the curve', right now.

If we had locked down earlier we would be feeling restless much earlier, and still be on the upward curve.

It's horrible, stifling and crap, but we have to stay strong, and we will and can get over this.
One day at a time, routine, treats when you can, and this will end.

Keep strong x