How do you feel a year on?

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A year ago today our office closed due to Covid - and I think it was the last night the pubs were allowed open - so we're about to pass the 12 month mark since lockdown.

How are you actually feeling at the moment? Dejected, demoralised, depressed etc, or more excited that there's a clear roadmap out of lockdown and a successful vaccination roll out? Or just a constant mix of both?

Tired and on autopilot. Not feeling very much of anything now that the crisis and associated adrenaline response of the early pandemic has long passed and we are now in this chronic ongoing situation.

Nervous about the future of work... I don't want to be a full time permanent worker at home but not sure how my organisation is going to deal with the return to office.

Slightly hopeful about vaccines but also aware that there is going to be be so much to deal with for everyone from the emotional/mental/physical wellbeing fallout. Overwhelmed at the impact this will have for years to come.

TBH, I'm past caring about much at all. I'm not looking forward to things but I'm not particularly worried about the future either. Apathetic is probably the best word.

Overwhelmed at the impact this will have for years to come.

It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking it'll be back to normal on x date (if only for our own sanity) but we'll be in for a shock by the short, medium and long term repercussions. I don't think we can really be thinking ahead at the moment, so that's put to the backburner.

I'm just hoping for a good summer at the moment, after such a wretched winter.

Well I am thankful that I have survived the past year and I am very hopeful for the future, thanks to the vaccine.

Optimistic. The vaccination roll out is going well and so many of my friends and family have been done, as have I.
Looking forward to a great summer.

There was a brilliant poem type verse on R6 at about 2.30 that summed it up for me

About being buffered around but making it

Wonder if the words are anywhere

I also feel more optimistic today although it comes in waves

I’ve had to stop watching the news it’s the only way to deal with it. I just keep telling myself the road map will work this time, otherwise I’d be losing my mind (again) If it doesn’t go to plan I’ll deal with the fallout then.

A bit numb really. I’ve had a lot happen this year, personally and professionally, and I haven’t (despite a lot of trying) really processed any of it fully yet.

Happy to be alive and unaffected.

Ecstatic that my mum and sister have both been vaccinated.

Overjoyed that none of my close friends have died (touch and go with
a couple, but full recovery).

Optimistic that the UK's population isn't as influenced by anti-vax madness as I'd feared and as a result a semblance of normality is going to return sooner rather than later.

Sad for all those who have unnecessarily lost loved ones or their business due to the way this has all been mishandled.

I was feeling optimistic, but the news about a possible third wave in some parts of Europe is worrying. It's like the virus is torturing us all - we start to inch out of the mess, back it comes for another go.

utterly fed up. My business (childcare) is scraping by. This week ive had to exclude 3 children with coughs and another's bubble has popped at school so she's isolating again.

2 of my neighbours have had positive tests because they have decided they don't need to follow the rules, which has led to another bubble closing at school.

I haven't seen my family for over a year and my daughter is depressed and scared to leave the house.

In short, utterly pissed off thanks for asking.

Angry, if I am being completely honest.

Totally fed up of the restrictions, the division that’s been created, a crisis often unifies a nation, but this has been the reverse.

Not a world that I want for my adult DS’s or anyone else for that matter.

Bored.

Just meh.

I'm tired and have no enthusiasm for anything. There's nowhere to go, nothing to do and nothing I can raise much 'give a shit' about.

I'm glum. It feels like, yeah, whatever. I'll believe it when I see it.

A bit of both. I was furloughed on 23rd March last year and was concerned about my job but business bounced back so I'm working again this time around. I feel optimistic now there's a vaccine but I'm also concerned about set backs and fed up of spending all my time at home.

Hoping to god we are out of it now

Exhausted. Numb.

Just resigned really, I've given up feeling anxious and fighting it. I've also kind of given up waiting for things to get better. I just sort of plod through each day making the best of things.

Depressed, 4 family members have died this year and I'm on edge whenever the landline rings.

Tired. Just bone tired. I feel nothing any more.

Positive. Today we have reached and gone beyond the halfway mark with 1st doses, which means that now, more adults in the UK have had their 1st dose than not. Also, over 2 million people have now had both doses and are fully vaccinated. Such great news.

Extremely pissed off and very angry.

About the 125000 dead.

About the loss of DC schooling and social interaction and ongoing effects for university education etc. Years 10-13 have been really badly affected in many ways.

About the loss of grass roots sports for most of the year so DC have lost all their fitness (walking does not cut it).

About the lies and corruption of the government, the contracts awarded to friends and Tory party donors/contacts, the millions and millions of misspent money. The waste of money on EOTHO.

About the total squandering of the first lockdown and the need for a second and third lockdown.

About the open borders and the fact that we still have inadequate border controls to stop the new South African variant (widespread in Europe now) and Brazilian variant bringing a huge third wave to the UK.

About the PTSD and other trauma to the NHS staff who treated the Covid-19 patients.

About not seeing family for 1 year.

Optimistic. Had my jab today. Got two festivals booked for the summer

I could be either but always try to look on the bright side and by optimistic/hopeful.