I can't take anymore

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I am done! Depression panic attacks this is never going to end what is the point ?

I've had enough to. Wearing bloody masks for 12 hour shifts in this heat is getting to me now. I'm fully vaccinated and still having 3 covid tests a week.

I feel so cross with Boris and so depressed. It looks like lots of people haven’t seen the news. I’m thinking of deleting Twitter.

I am convinced it will take longer if we keep having lockdowns. They are just prolonging things. The Spanish Flu burned itself out with no lockdowns.

I mean, true, but it did also kill 50 million people.

The medical profession didn’t fully comprehend the severity of the disease. In the summer of 1918, the Royal College of Physicians announced that Spanish flu was no more threatening than the still well remembered ‘Russian flu’ of 1889–94. The British Medical Journal accepted that overcrowding on transport and in the workplace was necessary to help the war effort, and implied that the inconvenience of flu should be quietly borne.

Yes, let's take this approach again

Pretty foolish to hold Spanish Flu up as an epidemiological exemplar! There was no real health service to crash back then, of course.

If someone had said in March last year this will take two years then I would have been fine with it

I think it was fairly evident from March last year that this wasn’t going to be over quickly. I have always felt it would take a minimum of a couple of years, even with vaccines. I am not one for sticking up for the Government and I think Boris continues to behave appallingly, but this thing hasn’t come with a handbook and everyone, even the genuine experts, is just winging it.

I am edgy again, I don’t like the way it’s going. For my own mental health, I consider reading up on it to be a better strategy than head in the sand which many advocate.

I completely empathise OP. After a few weeks of starting to feel better I'm feeling quite scared again. I feel like it's only a matter of time before the vaccines become useless against a new variant and we're back at square one. Wish I could say something uplifting and reassuring but just know you aren't alone in feeling miserable.

Each stage feels strange

This one is we can do stuff but there’s no shortage of people with warnings and telling us the worst

I say try to keep an even perspective, meet people, do things, it’s very hard so it’s fine yo acknowledge that then build up other areas to counteract it

@RoseWineTime

I feel so cross with Boris and so depressed. It looks like lots of people haven’t seen the news. I’m thinking of deleting Twitter.

Given that most people think he’s a buffoon, I really don’t understand why we also seem to expect him to have a crystal ball!

The vaccine rollout is going extremely well - 75% and 50% have had one and two doses respectively and it continues to rise at a pace. There is light at the end of the tunnel!

In the beginning while Boris was being his usual vague and blithering self, Chris Witty said quite clearly that it was going to be a very long haul and that we would need to keep putting on the brakes and releasing slowly ie how the lockdowns worked. I’m still so surprised when people think it was over last summer. But we are getting there.

I don't expect Johnson to have a crystal ball, all I expected was he would try to engage with the severity of the situation, bother to turn up to COBRA meetings, not call the ventilator search 'operation last gasp', not dismiss the deaths, listen to science.

No leader had a crystal ball, but he's been a truly dreadful person throughout.

I feel the same OP. I've been so happy since 17th May, even before that really. It all felt so positive and I was thrilled to get my first vaccine at the start of May.

Now there has been an outbreak and my DC's school and it's isolation for the whole of half term. Everyone else is out having a lovely time (fair play, we would be too if we weren't isolating) and I can't shake the feeling this will bring more cases into schools and more children will have to isolate.

I understand what people say about deaths and hospitalisations staying low but rising cases means rising numbers of children having to miss out on everything and isolate. It's brought me right back down again. I feel hopeless.

Lots of leaders have made mistakes and agree that everyone has been winging it at times. But you shouldn’t need a crystal ball to learn from your mistakes. Why keep the borders open with India (whilst shutting down to its neighbours)? Something to do a trade deal I think, so completely politically motivated. I bet the epidemiologists/scientists were furious. And it’s unfortunate that some of the key hotspots in the past like Leicester and Bolton have quite high Asian populations so likely even more vulnerable for whatever reason.

@RoseWineTime

I feel so cross with Boris and so depressed. It looks like lots of people haven’t seen the news. I’m thinking of deleting Twitter.

What news? The variants? That’s hardly new news.

What news? The variants? That’s hardly new news
No - The technical briefing from PHE yesterday

@RoseWineTime

What news? The variants? That’s hardly new news No - The technical briefing from PHE yesterday

Genuinely don’t know what this is... can you link? Not trying to be dense but I haven’t seen anything on the mainstream news channels that is any more alarming than the whole of the pandemic has generally been. If I’ve missed something I’m sorry - I’ve not been well and caring for a disabled child as well.

The last thing I heard was Boris being positive June 21st can go ahead. I had an event on Saturday and have loads of breaks booked. Finally I felt I had turned a corner and I was putting my health first again despite caring for 2 neurodiverse dds and a disabled dh.
Wish I hadn't clicked on the thread.
Sorry for everyone suffering.

@User629202

I am convinced it will take longer if we keep having lockdowns. They are just prolonging things. The Spanish Flu burned itself out with no lockdowns.

I mean, true, but it did also kill 50 million people.

And average life expectancy in the UK back then in the pre-antibiotic and modern medicine era was only 50-something, anyway. Talk about setting your expectations phenomenally low, to hark back to a mass killer in an era when few people expected to live to a great age, anyway.

I’ve been out with family all week, eating out, days out
Seeing my parents for first time since Xmas 2019 as they live at other side of country

You can do loads you couldn’t do a few weeks ago and things will continue to get better

Why so defeatist? Do you or others in your family have health issues that are stopping you?

Now that everyone likely (and by ‘likely’ I still mean a vanishingly tiny number) to suffer noticeable symptoms has been vaccinated it is tome yo go back to normal other than foreign travel. I have family abroad who I miss terribly but accept that if you choose to live in another country you cannot e the world to revolve around you and your circumstances.
Similary those whose choose not to or ‘cannot’ have the vaccine can adapt their lives for minimu ‘risk’ -ie stay indoors and/or in a mask for ever if you want -again is selfish snd entitled if you expect the world to stop for you.
Those who say the 1918 epidemic burned out ionly adter killing the most vulnerable miss the point that the health service that did not exist then will treat those who have severe symptoms, and there was no vaccine!

Is scandalous to take meaningful life away from millions of young people to pander to a few who demand an unattainable 100% ‘safety’ for themselves.

Yesterday’s Technical Briefing from PHE re the Delta variant

Do you know what's triggering your panic attacks?

I've been a long time sufferer of anxiety and depression. Following some stressful times I suddenly started having daily panic attacks. Full blown tearing my clothes off, heart rate in the middle 100's, screaming that I'm dying, uncontrollable shaking... Hideous bloody things.
Although I'd used caffeine and alcohol my entire adult life, they had suddenly become triggers. I massively cut down on both (2 coffees a day / only 1 alcoholic beverage if I have a drink) and my panic attacks instantly reduced. Spicy food to a lesser extent, too.

Obviously the cause is still a mental one. But physical triggers really exasperated it.

There maybe physical changes you can make to help yourself.

I still have panic attacks. But once every few months now.

“The Spanish Flu burned itself out with no lockdowns.”

But I suppose by ‘burned itself out’ you mean infected or killed all the susceptible people?

It ended though. That was my point.

... it took over three years and killed over 250,000. It also lead to serious long term health issues and kids born in that period suffered learning difficulties.

It better bloody end.

Spanish flu was different. We weren't flying all over the world then. This is impossible to contain. Christ knows how or when it'll end or at least feel like normal life again.