Literally can't take any more

[EnlightenedOwl]

Day in day out at home. Work at home walk back to home. Just had another walk thought would call for takeaway coffee for treat. Ten mile queue so no coffee. I literally can't hack months and months of this

I'm with you OP. I'm furloughed so not even work to keep me busy. Shopping once a week. Otherwise cannot be bothered to do anything. Get up at midday, spend an hour on the tablet catching up on the news and on Mumsnet then spend the day on the sofa in front of the tv before going to bed around 11pm. Live in a city and don't drive so nowhere to walk to.
Getting so bored and depressed and no end in sight.

We would always go somewhere or do something at weekend eg National Trust. Go somewhere for a walk, breakfast or lunch out somewhere. Cancelled a much needed short break at Easter. Just absolutely nothing now. Not bothering booking any leave from work as no point?

Take a picnic and go somewhere nice tommorow since you can't buy lunch. It will do you the world of good. Depends where you live of course but we seem to have places where the car park looks busy but people are well scattered about so no crowd worries.

Ramalamalama

It’s not a competition to see who’s the most miserable you know. People are allowed to feel fed up, regardless of their circumstances.

Op, I get it. Last Sunday I really fancied a Krispy Kreme and rushed off to Tesco before It closed. Didn’t realise that dc had been mucking around with the clock and didn’t bother checking my phone so when I got there it was already closed. Honestly, I cried. It wasn’t really even about the doughnut, everything just got on top of me and I couldn’t cope. I felt sorry for myself for the rest of the day then woke up the next day and felt much better.

*I don’t mean to be rude, but I’m shielding, so I cannot leave the house at all, my children cannot return to school even when they reopen, I’ve been told to expect a phonecall asking me whether I’m happy to have DNR added to my health records. I’m trying to work from home and homeschool: not possible to do both so I’m doing neither properly. I don’t know if my mental health or my children’s will survive this and there may be a year or more to go.

What I would give to go out and queue for an hour for a coffee*

This is very unhelpful. There are always people worse off than you. That doesn't mean you can't feel that your circumstances are getting you down.

I have also been feeling pretty rubbish this past week. I just see months and months of 'interacting' via computer screen, with none of the joys and distractions of normal life, and nothing to look forward to. I've come to loathe the expressions 'the new normal' or 'learning to live with the virus' with a passion. I just want it to be over. But I know it won't, not anytime soon.

And yes, I know many people are much worse off than me. But it's not terribly helpful on the psychological level.

I live alone and am spending my 62nd day in isolation. Car in garage but licence suspended on medical grounds. It's a lovely day but poor mobility prevents going for a walk so I agree with you op. I see no end to it. I am seriously p*** off.
Rant over. Any suggestions gratefully received but just can't read any more!

I honestly don't get what people are finding so hard

@RaininSummer It's still, just, Mental Health Awareness Week. Try to use a bit of imagination, perhaps?

OP, this completely sucks. I feel the same as you.

Absolutely it wasn't the coffee itself it was just the thing that tipped me over today. That and the racing tickets for November looking at me which I'm fairly sure are redundant. And the NT renewal....

Bless you OP.
Hannah888 SAME to living alone - yoga with adriene on youtube has helped me massively. Recommend to all (OP included) - it just gives you something different to achieve each day. Started with her 30 days of yoga, then moved to yoga camp. All completely free on youtube. It’s made a world of difference to my mental health.
Sending kind thoughts to all :)

You need to find yourself a hobby OP. It's entirely possible to have plenty to occupy you if you can be arsed. As smug as it sounds, for me it's C25k, embroidery, learning a language, loads of audiobooks to listen to while walking ... I'm not showing off or claiming to be a master of any of those things but my days are very full. As for cancelling a holiday because you'd just be going for walks, even just the change of scene could have been something to look forward to. Don't work tomorrow; there's plenty to have a go at instead.

Maybe but a lot of places simply don't want tourists atm. I genuinely cant see how it would be enjoyable either.

I feel the same OP I am really down at the moment. Nothing at all to look forward to. If you are struggling to get into a book try Readly. Not sure how much it is (about £6 or £7 a month I think) but you get digital downloads of loads of magazines which has been great for me when I can't get into a book. I've also been doing th C25K and Yoga (Adrienne). But I am fed up

Going to log onto wirk tomorrow supposed to be bank holiday but every day is same really so may as well work

Nooo! Don't do that, OP!

Go check out the Hay Festival on-line (that's my bank holiday plan) or watch one of the theatre plays on offer. Or write a story.

I love planning holidays (researching the best hotels, days out, etc and clipping photos in a digital file with all the URLs for the future) so you could do that if it floats your boat, or looking at property porn?

Are there any types of computer game you like?