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?

I guess it is good we don't live in one of those countries where you can't go out at all, at least we can go for walks etc..it is still really tough but it could always be worse.

I’m supposed to be looking for work. I can’t get in the zone for that at all.

I’ve had enough. Working hard at home in the day but feel guilty that I really can’t be bothered to do anything productive with my spare time. Should be an opportunity and instead an just zonked our watching master chef. All these free plays, concerts, literary festivals online, chance to practise piano, read books etc etc and I just can’t be bothered. Just going to the corner shop to replenish fruit and vegetables has become an enormous effort. Was supposed to go today but persuaded myself that it could wait as I still have one creme egg and half a bottle of wine left.

I guess it is good we don't live in one of those countries where you can't go out at all, at least we can go for walks etc..it is still really tough but it could always be worse.

That's just it. Some of us (The shielders) can't even go out for a walk. And our lockdown has just been extended to the end of June. We aren't all aged bed-bound "don't care if I never go out again" people. Many of us are working age, usually out and about and playing a full part in te community and economy, and now we are shut up in our houses and forgotten. HELP!!!!

I am stressed with it all now specially working in a supermarket. I've had a fit note from gp for amended work duties as was all getting to much where I was working. So been put elsewhere now. My anxiety has been high and after this all calms down I'll probably be off in sickness as I'll be so down by then

I do feel awful for those shielding who can't even go for a walk . Walking is keeping me sane right now. Would be in much worse shape (I mean mentally) if I couldn't go out at all

This afternoon, went for a stroll along village footpaths to the local church where Florence Nightingale is buried. Only out for an hour but it was a tonic and lifted my flagging spirits

I haven’t minded lock down, in some ways it’s made my life less stressful, but I’m getting less careful now and I’m not watching the updates etc like I was doing at the start. I guess the novelty factor is wearing off and we just want to do normal things.

Traffic even busier today- like normal really. I think everyone has had enough now.

I certainly have. @Blueblackrose

I was fine for the first two weeks.
I live in a very very rural area and have two children with Autism and a VERY quiet life. We can see no one for days on end.
But on the 3rd week of lockdown we drove a short distance (3miles) to walk on one of our usual walks and a local landowner came out and shouted at us. Once he realised we were 'local' he backtracked a bit (had been inundated with townies at the weekend, so he said) but my teenage kids were in tears and frightened and I felt upset too. We had touched nothing and seen no one at all so it was really upsetting.

I drove home feeling MUCH more trapped, and that hasn't lifted.
I am grateful I am not shielding and grateful that we can walk down the lane but it is difficult to keep ones spirits up.
(and difficult not to get annoyed with friends in London zooming about and gparents 'popping' to M&S daily for their 'treats' (yet also asking me to arrange Tesco delivery slots when I cant get one myself)

OldLace - similar to you but not as directly upsetting (wasn't actually confronted and shouted at). I drive 1.5 miles to the New Forest Common nearby but feel a little under siege because some villagers have made their views very plain on the village facebook page, as has the Parish Council, about driving to exercise - even though the majority of us are also villagers, driving a very short distance, and are well within the NPCC guidelines. Every time I walk there I prime myself ready to be challenged by a busybody.

Its also not an area where I like to walk because the Parish Council has taken it upon themselves to put signs up asking us to keep our dogs on a lead during March to September for ground nesting birds - totally senseless because ground nesting birds would not choose a location where there are many dog walkers, other walkers and horse riders (and ground nesting birds have not been spotted in that location). Normally I drive 5/6 miles to other walking areas without these restrictions - but don't feel that I can do that now (as its not my nearest open space) - so I am stuck with the local Common area and the nimbys