How are you managing to be positive

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And Keep your spirits up? I’m really struggling since the schools opened..I cannot even bring myself to plan ahead😰

I struggle during winter as it is..
Any tips how I can keep my spirits up?

I don’t think I’m managing not to worry.

I try to get out in the garden even if I’m now putting off bigger trips out.

This is all really hard and we’ll look back on it with some disbelief I think. Don’t know when we get to look back on it, mind!

I follow the science and medical updates. There's a lot of positive work going on, and I have every faith that scientific advances will beat covid-19.

any good ones you can recommend
I recommend download stitcher (or similar) and search according to your areas of interest!

@Heffalooomia thank you. I’ll try that

podcasts can be a great way to make exercise more enjoyable:o
( I find them hard to follow when I'm completely off my face on the drugs tho)

I'm not really, but I will be making sure our stash of food is all in date and ready to go, getting some crafts and books and DVDs for the inevitable lock down or isolation and I've asked for a Lumie light to help stave off SAD.

Comedy to distract, the stats threads and More or Less to inform without panicking and remembering that my grandmother came here as a refugee. She made a good life here starting with nothing, while suspecting and then knowing most of her family were dead. If she could do that, then I can do this.

One day at a time was my strategy in March /April. First cough and cold in the family now and awaiting test (will be negative I’m sure) so back to one day at a time....

I was fine until Ive now realised I will probably never see my granny alive ever again as she is basically a prisoner in her care home

Low expectations really. As in really, really low. I would be ecstatic if school is open by half term.

I'm sorting out and streamling life. Trying to shop less and declutter. So if everything goes TU I will have a tidy house and can everything ( unlike lockdown as we went feral)

It's just like trying on a new life for the time being? Hopefully not forever but being less socail, not getting my Hope's up. Trying to focus on what I can control like my house.

Sad really but I'm happier now than back in June whilst I was missing looking forward and planning still. Everything has been cancelled so I will living a smaller life while I wait

Returning to work really helped me because I need routine. I did long walks most days, before returning to work and short walks on rainy days. I did a lot of reading and started art classes with my dd.
I know have to self isolate because someone at work has covid. So stuck at home and back to comfort eating and obsessively cleaning!

When some online friends and I were stuck in the middle of newborn shit a few years back, we used to post every evening something we were grateful for. It forces you to be positive when things are pants. Time to do that, I think.

As others say, take one day at a time. Some days will be good, and if you have a bad day, the next day will probably be better.

Stop thinking about what the long term situation might look like. We have no idea. The spring wasn't quite as bad as it could have been - the hospital's didn't get overwhelmed, people helped each other and made new friends online and on their street, and it passed.

This will pass too, so take one day at a time and try to take stock of the nice things at the end of the day.

Mindfulness is helping me so much. It very much gets you to focus on the here and now as that is all any of us has. It's got me through the pandemic even if sometimes I've fallen into a massive panic. I would recommend it to anyone struggling.

I think getting outside each day and taking exercise is critical.

Stepping away from the news and anything too miserable feels crucial too (Mumsnet included - there is so much of people writing things on here as if they're fact when they're just that posters fears and anxieties.)

Having a craft project on the go - seeing something positive grow over time is a lovely thing.

Overall though, I'm trying to tell myself that every generation of humans has faced massive adversity, whether that's on a personal level or as a society. I was thinking today about the men aged 15-45 in 1914 who all had potential and ambition and dreams and who basically got so incredibly screwed over by events which had nothing to do with them individually. We can all only accept that life does involve these massive hiccups where none of us have control but there is still good in the world and things to wake up for each day. The more you can look at your small blessings, the better. I'm saying that as someone who is struggling very badly, I'm not at peace with what is going on and this virus has had some extremely negative consequences for me but thinking about how resilient a species we are and how life isn't fair for anyone does help a bit.

We will come through this. Pandemics don't last. Hopefully the end is nearer than we think. I am so grateful we have so many brilliant scientists working really hard to make things better for us.

2020 was going to be the year I got my life in order and sorted out my mental health. Aaaa haha haha😩😩😩😱

I've done ok so far but having a bad day.
DS left home on lockdown because I am ECV and he works frontline.
I haven't hugged my son in six months and I'm now thinking I should have taken the risk when things were improving in July/ August. Now it's all going bad again.
To be honest it's not catching covid that stops me it's the fact that he would feel responsible if I caught it and died.

I'm keeping my spirits up, literally.

Gin, rum, vodka.. all helping dull the shitstorm that is reality 😂

In seriousness I'm just concentrating on trying to make sure my ds10 has as normal a life as is possible

Ban the TV news.

Honestly I've just sat through the evening news and I'm ready to top myself.

It will only be rolled out nationally as a last resort, locally, yes. I do not believe for one moment they will tell the vulnerable nationally to go back into shielding.

I have no choice, I'm a single parent to a 5 year old , I'm his world so I owe it to him to set an example of how to " roll with it " . Dont get me wrong I have my down days but I dont let him see, i work so hard arranging fun things for us to do together that I cant help but be uplifted!

Sorry , he's 6 not 5 !

Also following for ideas.

I also struggle a bit in winter - last winter I got one of those SAD lamps and I think it helped so going to start using it from now, we have had some grey days already. Today was fab though!

Also going to start taking supplements.

Lockdown was crazy busy in work for me...I feel like I'm not going to try and juggle work/childcare/home school again, it was a horrendous time. I have savings to resign if I have to, if there's another extended lockdown (Being a SAHM in lockdown might be worse for my mental health though )

Doing as much as possibly permissible. Seeing friends and colleagues for lunches and dinners, play dates for ds, farm trips, swimming, DS sports, a baby class for DD and me squeezed into a weekend as I am back at work, as much as we can do (responsibly, safely) doing everything allowed And treating and treasuring each of these as drops of soul-food literally, so that if and when these freedoms need to stop - I am
Nourished and recharged.

Making plans A b c for various levels of lockdown to prevent catastrophising.

Planning 2021 stuff.

Focusing on my next promotion application.

Sorry, I posted in the wrong thread

Gin, World of Warcraft and long, dramatic episodes of shower crying.

In answer to the thread title......I'M NOT😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥