Is anyone else finding this week tough?

[Seaair2]

Since the beginning of lockdown 3 I’ve tried to remain positive etc but this week I just feel I’ve hit a bit of a brick wall with it all! For the first time since this all began I’ve sort of stopped and thought what on Earth is going on, it’s awful and scary that no one knows what problems more new variations will bring etc in the future. Is anyone else the same, doing quite well keeping positive then the next week feeling a bit rubbish about it all?

@x2boys

I'm not sure these endless doom and gloom threads help ,yes it's shit and the UK hit a grim milestone yesterday but on the positive side case numbers are falling massively and the vaccine roll out is well under way , restrictions will be lifted of course they will , January and February are always hard months .

I find it helpful to know I’m not alone, your post on the other hand not so much.

This week has been a rollercoaster. The media have printed soon many doom stories that were later found to be incorrect. Even if you know they are probably rubbish it is draining.

The weather has been wet, cold and gloomy here. So can't escape outside for too long.

Definitely worst week I have had for a while.

I am actually finding it easier this time around - at this time of year, l wouldn't be going out socialising anyway cos it is too cold and dark so don't feel like l am missing out. Find lockdown more depressing in the spring and summer when l should be out enjoying myself. Hope you feel better soon OP xxx

I agree, this week has been especially difficult and even the children are feeling it. I think we had been so hopeful things would be a lot better by now and it just seems to be getting worse and worse.

i’ve fully had enough this week. i’m really struggling at the moment and i’m bursting into tears at the tiniest thing. it doesn’t help that i’m constantly exhausted and i can’t get an appointment for a blood test for three weeks. my kids are doing my head in as well. it’s a struggle to get my 13 and 6 year olds to do any school work, my 2 year old has basically turned feral, and the baby has turned into an absolute cling on that cries if i put her down for ten seconds. it’s just utterly draining.

I feel really low today, I just want to go to see my parents whom I haven’t for over a year and introduce them to my 8 month old.

I have been pretty upbeat throughout lockdown (because what else are you going to do right?) but this week I have just had enough! If I could go out for lunch even that would be something.

On the upside, I live right next door to a huge vaccination centre and cars are streaming in everyday. So I think the end is in sight!

Yes feeling low today. January is always a miserable grim month so this month was always going to drag. It’s the repetition of home schooling, work, making children’s snacks, tidying up etc that is getting to me and the grim weather. It all seems right now that it won’t end but I am hopeful for spring. Even if we are still in lockdown I can cope better if the weather is nicer. Just trying to remain positive and I have promised ds1 we can make chocolate cupcakes this afternoon to encourage him to do his school work today. He is getting increasingly fed up with it all too.

Yes, I and most people I know are really struggling this week. January always feels long, cold and dark at the best of times, but with lockdown too it's been so hard. I keep trying to think of small guaranteed things I can look forward to - like flowers starting to blossom, trees coming back into leaf, it getting warmer and being able to go out into the garden eventually. My birthday, even if it will be in lockdown. Taking it one day at a time and trying to be grateful we're safe and well. It's not easy, though.

I'm stressing about restrictions being lifted too quickly and schools opening with no further safety measures in place which will send cases soaring again putting us back to an awful position. I think if we take things carefully, then we can get through this summer and with the adult population vaccinated by Autumn, then it will be a very different picture by then.
We've always had pessimistic views on things. Look at how we were told a vaccine couldn't be developed, then it would take years, then it might be 50%. effective if we're lucky - all proved wrong.
I have great faith that science will find a way of controlling and treating this, and hopefully there will be opportunities for our youngsters once we are through the other side.
Better weather is fast approaching and this pandemic has at least highlighted what needs to be improved and is important in our society.
Things will get better, I have visions of us all in our dotage telling the younger generations about life in the pandemic, like previous generations did with the war!

It is like some horrible ground hog day of cooking, dishes, laundry, hoovering and tripping over toys. Trying to homeschool 2 kids whilst also looking after a baby is just so hard and draining. I love my kids but god I am sick of their bickering and constant asking for snacks!! I had a massive rant/cry at my DP when he got in from his 12hr shift about it and he actually said "what did you expect with 3 kids?". Erm I didn't expect a pandemic with 2 school closures and having to home school on my maternity leave you absolute dickhead!!!

I feel horrible this week as well. I am literally counting down the days until January is over. I know it’s illogical as things won’t magically improve on Feb 1st but I’m just so tired of this month, it’s been long, cold, depressing, and exhausting. At least in Feb we’re getting some kind of update on what’s happening in terms of lifting restrictions. The uncertainty is so exhausting and I have zero enthusiasm or motivation left for home school.

Thank you @Fembot123, hard not too, but you're right.

@HollyBollyBooBoo

Thank you *@Fembot123*, hard not too, but you're right.

It is really hard.

Yes, feeling very fed up. Had worked out a way to do some more interesting walks with the kids at weekends by cycling somewhere then walking. Had a lovely walk round a nature reserve we had never been to before, then on Sunday I broke my wrist out in the snow. Now in plaster for 6 weeks and causing extra work for already overworked DH. So much for staying out of hospital.

Yes me too. I feel like I can't go on and I am also a really positive upbeat person.

I am scared for the first time that this is going to go on for a long time and life just feels so bleak. Work is so monotonous with online working and everyone at work is low and I'm having to try and gee everyone up.

Yep. I've really had enough.

Yes! And so many people I know feel this way.

But I am trying to focus on a day at a time and I believe once it gets lighter and warmer we will feel better!

I'm so fed up too at the moment.

Last week I was feeling quite upbeat - was almost, almost even finding small things to enjoy in lockdown. Now I'm back to feeling despair and like I don't even know how I'm going to make it through to the evening. Everything just feels so pointless and joyless.

Yes I'm def feeling it more this week. It just feels relentless and monotonous. Dread the daily routine and trying to cojole, bribe my year 1 and year 4 dds into doing their work. They bicker with each other non stop. I need to sit with both of them individually to help them. My 5 year old proclaimed her head hurt after writing 4 words for phonics yesterday. Yes sweetheart so does mummy's!.

Just feels some days are like some kind of twisted groundhog day. I try to be positive and I know this has all got to end but there always seems to be something happening which moves the goalposts again. Humph

Like another poster I hit a wall a couple of weeks ago and felt really down but I feel a little bit. brighter this week. Things are really tough but we will come out of this. I’m trying to reduce my media consumption and focus on the little things that make me feel better like getting enough sleep, exercising, eating well, getting out for walks, phone calls with friends etc while trying to take one day at a time. Soon it’ll be spring and more people will be vaccinated. It’s all slow progress but we’ll get there. No pandemic has ever lasted forever. We are making progress though the new strain has thrown things a bit.

Yep, it's pretty grim. I can't even muster up the concentration to read or anything. Had my appraisal for work this week and when my boss asked me how I was coping I had to stop myself from bursting into tears. She's lovely but there's nothing she can do.

I've signed myself up for an online mindfulness class

Haven't got time to read the whole thread but want to come back and find you later - yes, I am on my knees today. And I recognise we are the "lucky ones"

Doing 100% of my own job, running the house during the week (shopping, cooking/snacks, washing, cleaning), 100% home schooling for a primary aged and emotional support/help for the teen when they get stuck/down/fed up and 90% of the emotional support for the family in general.

Sympathy for everyone else struggling

I agree we shouldn’t underestimate how much the weather will be affecting us - I think I suffer from SAD anyway and jan/feb are always a bit rubbish. I agree with Babdoc that things will improve vastly in spring and were in the worst bit now.
It’s the not really knowing for sure what’s going to happen that is so difficult or when exactly things will reopen - the psychology of time just stretching in front of you like an abyss is horrible! I hate feeling like I’m wishing my life away. But I really do think we will be entering more of a semblance of normality by March.

This week has been my breaking week too. Strange it's hit so many, 2 weeks ago I was wobbling but then this week has hit my like a train. Its very circular, weeks of OK, followed by a wobble and then OK, but this week I well and truly fell off!

It must be this week then, I’ve been very upbeat and positive and actually enjoyed being at home in the cold and dark, but this week so far has been hard. I think it’s made worse by people speculating and saying schools will be off until September and we will be in lockdown until the autumn.