So be so utterly fed up now

[youcanthandlethetruth]

Aside from all of the awful things last year brought (of which I’ve had my share) I am so bored and fed up now.

I’ve walked a thousand times, spent time with the dog, been working, baked, read new books, watched Netflix, started a new instrument but I am now just so, so fed up.

Feeling very down. Anyone else?

Yanbu, it's crap. I've stopped watching the news full-stop now which has made me feel a bit better. Other than that I've got nothing to recommend sorry.

Yeah, it’s bollocks. I’ve been on that many local walks I could probably mark the location of every pothole on a map. I’m absolutely craving a decent meal out, or a few hours on the cocktails in a decent cocktail bar. Or even, god forbid, seeing my parents without having to meet them individually in a park like something from a John Le Carre novel.

Yes. I'm starting to become depressed but I think if I stop watching the news so much and browse social media it may help a bit.

Yep. End’s in sight now though.

Yep. Flitting between being bored shitless and so stressed.

One tip that others have said. Turn off all news channels and hide any news pages from your feeds. I feel so much better taking time away from it. My anxiety has been so bad I've started getting really really nervous when i have to enter a shop and since i stopped the news i feel so much more level headed. Try something new like painting, knitting, dancing, watching a new you tuber try new meditation, order some new books, try doing a puzzle,phoning someone you haven't spoken to in a while.

But yes yanbu it's boring

I've started making lists of restaurants I can't wait to visit and I didn't even go to that many pre lockdown

If I never cooked again it would not come a day too soon

I’m drinking a glass of wine looking at the puddle suits drying on the radiator and I want to chop them into a million pieces and never see the local park again!
Someone suggested on social media before playing the Pollyanna fucking glad game when you are feeling down. Today I want to stab people who talk about glad games in the eye with a fork but you can’t do that social distanced 😂🤦🏼‍♀️

Yes. I also find not watching the news helps. And avoiding social media.

I just don't care anymore, I'm so disengaged. When people have debates about what the measures should be or when we should have gone into lockdown or whether or not people are or are not following the rules or wearing their masks correctly or whatever. I just don't care, I don't want to talk about any of it, I just want it to end.

Yep me. I feel so sad for most of the time. I'd give anything to be able to give my mum a cuddle. Everything just feels so pointless no matter how hard I try and find joy in things.

Yep totally boring. Watching Cobra Kai on Netflix has cheered me and dh up a bit, it’s full of 80s cheese and is nice and feel good.

But yes it’s all shit and feels never ending.

I feel the same I had a breakdown late 2019 and was just getting well and this struck last week I spent 4 days crying and feel like working and that is it .... I can bear these restrictions anymore

I hear you. The novelty of lockdown 1.0 and lunch breaks sunning myself in the garden with a book while awaiting delivery of my latest veg box have long gone.

And now even the rebooked holidays are getting cancelled 😞

Trying to count blessings every day. It's like life has faded to black and white but it won't always be this way. Health really is the most important thing we have.

i’ve been shielding since last march, pretty much. i have to make an effort to get out of bed and dressed every day otherwise my already shit mental health would nosedive and i can’t go back there.

am holding out for a vaccine by mid-feb. i live in a studio flat (luckily a huge one) and have counted these walls many, many times.

my latest distraction has been watching ‘Fame’ the telly series from the 80s on prime video. it’s just as good as it was when i was 9!

I am working FT (from home) but have still managed to watch all of

Schitts Creek
This Is Us
The Affair
Ramsay's restaurant kitchen disaster ones (US and UK and there are millions)
Sons of Anarchy
The Serpent

And so many Scandi dramas I'm staring to think I'm fluent in Finnish

@HappyThursdays

I am working FT (from home) but have still managed to watch all of

Schitts Creek
This Is Us
The Affair
Ramsay's restaurant kitchen disaster ones (US and UK and there are millions)
Sons of Anarchy
The Serpent

And so many Scandi dramas I'm staring to think I'm fluent in Finnish

Try the fall :-)

Oh and rewatched the whole of Peep Show and Spooks (surprisingly violent for its time!)

@Spiratedaway seen that already. I love Gillian Anderson. She's so sexy!

I thought I would read loads but I didn't. I watched shit tv instead

@HappyThursdays

I am working FT (from home) but have still managed to watch all of

Schitts Creek
This Is Us
The Affair
Ramsay's restaurant kitchen disaster ones (US and UK and there are millions)
Sons of Anarchy
The Serpent

And so many Scandi dramas I'm staring to think I'm fluent in Finnish

I second The Fall. Watched that last week! Also The Tunnel, 3,series!

@Buttercupcup

I’m drinking a glass of wine looking at the puddle suits drying on the radiator and I want to chop them into a million pieces and never see the local park again! Someone suggested on social media before playing the Pollyanna fucking glad game when you are feeling down. Today I want to stab people who talk about glad games in the eye with a fork but you can’t do that social distanced 😂🤦🏼‍♀️

May I suggest you explore a craft? Making something with your hands, creativity, all that. Good for the soul, I'm told.

I'm going to suggest you start off with these things:

Elastic bands and/or sellotape
A long stick
Your fork

I think you might find it therapeutic.

I don't know how you are all managing to home school, you all deserve mucho vino for that

Excellent idea @Motorina. I will get straight on to that after I have made artisan banana bread and taught the children Latin, obviously while doing some light yoga and creating a zoom quiz for the extended family.

I wish I wasn't doing dry January. Haven't lost any weight because I am eating vanilla slices from the local bakery daily, on my way back from a 3 mile dull muddy walk.
Dh is out of the house 5am to 6.30pm and I am forgetting how to form words.

Today has been the absolute worst day for me. I'm just so fucking bored of the whole shit now. Not only that, covid is all anyone wants to talk about and everyone's got an opinion of what should happen which is irrelevant as they're not running the country!!!

It's not so much the restrictions, it's the mental toll of it being on your mind 24/7.