Horrible anxious feeling about next few months

[banoffeee]

The uncertainty and not knowing what’s going to happen really makes me feel anxious. Back to enjoying life currently and everything feels practically back to normal- but all the stuff in the news about figures and vaccines and immunity is making me feel so nervous about everything. I struggled massively with the lockdowns and don’t know how much more of this I can take :( I hate the lack of control and the fact nobody seems to know things will pan out. Just want 2019 life back :(

Me too

I'm feeling the same. Anxiety is at a fever pitch. Finally went to the GP about it this week and had a lovely phone appointment where the GP actually set me up with a plan of action to get my mental health back under some sort of control. I can't believe how much that one conversation has helped so far, knowing someone will help in uncertain future.
Definitely recommend to reach out if anxiety is feeling out of hand.
Baby steps is what I'm going for xx

The uncertainty can be difficult. Definitely try your GP x

avalon could you share any of what the plan is, or is it too personal?

@madmomma
Lol it's not much of a plan, but it is more than I expected from the GP having heard me most others just get a list of charities to go too.
Anyway it's an email course CBT as first step, then followed by a face to face appointment with her in two weeks. If I don't feel like CBT online course has helped then I have a CBT course face to face/therapy.
Then if I don't feel this is enough she's got two medications in mind to try.
So not a complicated plan but something.
I'm in Scotland so I'm not able to apply for self referred therapy. But if you look on nhs under that you may be able to in England.

Thanks everyone, think I definitely need to speak to a GP at this point. It just all feels never ending at the moment.

I’m with you my anxiety is so high it’s the not knowing and feeling every little niggle must be covid. The worry of spreading it without knowing the fear of lockdown and losing income all of it really - I just want to hide under a duvet !

I can understand. But the first thing I’d be doing is hiding this topic. There’s too much rubbish being spouted on here as supposed truth.

@Sparklingbrook

I can understand. But the first thing I’d be doing is hiding this topic. There’s too much rubbish being spouted on here as supposed truth.

Exactly- there are people on here who delight in posting 'scary' stuff and talking up how doomed we are, and no doubt they will be along at some point.

The next few months are uncertain but bare in mind that we are in a completely different situation to last winter so, regardless of how confident they may sound, predictions based on what ha gone before are meaningless.

I think this will be a tough period as we are still in uncertain times and the pandemic has lasted a long while now.

The main thing is to see your reaction as normal, natural and understandable. You can't have 2019 life back, and that loss is a big one. We can never unlive what we went through.

But definitely you can be ok, your life can be good

I agree @Bordois. If people are looking to MN posters for Coronavirus facts they are few and far between sadly.

I do keep up with the news but not every day. I know CV has not gone away but there’s a balance. I need to live my life.

Think part of the issue is everyone seems to think they are the ones who know the true facts and it is the others being silly.

The reality is - none of us know.

Dealing with uncertainty is a hard thing for humans.

@lannistunut

Think part of the issue is everyone seems to think they are the ones who know the true facts and it is the others being silly.

The reality is - none of us know.

Dealing with uncertainty is a hard thing for humans.

Unfortunately there are some who state their thoughts as absolute fact with a bit of dramatic language for good measure.

Unless anyone is in possession of a fully functioning crystal ball then we just have to get on with things.

I’ve been dreading the end of summer purely because last autumn I felt we had the rug pulled out from under us constantly. Everything changed fast and the rules quite frankly were ridiculous.

I’ve loved summer and the lack of restrictions but it’s passed in a blink of an eye. I want to book things for the autumn but I just don’t trust that things will go ahead without restrictions. I don’t want to book events now for December say and find out later the event has now got a ridiculous set of rules attached to it that I didn’t sign up for.

I hope the government holds its nerve but I’m doubtful.

@Sparklingbrook Everyone has a different view of what 'getting on with things' should look like which just adds to the uncertainty. Oversimplifying is soothing in the short-term, but recognising the psychological impact of the period we are living through is healthier long-term.

You have to get on with things as you see fit and manage your own life. 🤷‍♀️
Nobody can tell anyone what they need to do, there’s no one size fits all so to speak.

I am dreading winter. I'm resigned to getting Covid - with a child in nursery and no household isolation it seems inevitable - and I actually think it might be better now when I've had a jab fairly recently than late winter when immunity is fading.

But what I'm struggling with is not knowing what might happen. The government is refusing to countenance the possibility that we might need restrictions if hospitalisations get too high. Everyone is saying 'We have to go back to normal'. Yes, in some ways, but also have a plan, for goodness sake. Plus my dad is now unwell and even higher risk than he already was. And I hate winter anyway... the last one was endless and dreary - always winter, never Christmas.

My plan is to get outside every morning for daylight, buy lots of fairy lights, and to tackle an overgrown area of my garden. Hopefully once we get through this winter things really will get back to normal.

I was anxious then my very elderly parents both caught it. One is CEV and has cancer, diabetes and heart problems and sailed through covid.
I think the state of fear I was previously in is common and a result of months of stats and worse case scenario.

Yes I feel the same. The anxiety going into winter is horriblez

it's a very, very weird time. In lots of ways, my life is back to 'normal'. I'm making - or trying to - make some quite big changes now because I, and my family situation, have been quite fundamentally changed by the last 18 months or so, and I've realised I'm not happy to just go back to how things were and pretending things are fine and nothing happened.

But it's been a very disturbing time with huge, profound changes to society and a great deal of uncertainty. I hope, with all my heart, that we're entering a new stage where we genuinely will get back to something fairly normal, in this country at least, but it's hard to shake the feeling that things might change at any moment - because, of course, that did happen at times this year and last.

I think it's quite important to acknowledge that. Even if we are (hopefully!) at the end of this very turbulent period, we've gone through quite a collective change.

@Sparklingbrook

I can understand. But the first thing I’d be doing is hiding this topic. There’s too much rubbish being spouted on here as supposed truth.

Omg this.

[quote lannistunut]@Sparklingbrook Everyone has a different view of what 'getting on with things' should look like which just adds to the uncertainty. Oversimplifying is soothing in the short-term, but recognising the psychological impact of the period we are living through is healthier long-term.[/quote]
Well obviously there is going to be uncertainty, covid is still around, nobodys knows what its going to be like in a, few weeks or months, things have been pretty much back to normal over the summer, but at present no one can say wether restrictions will be reimposed or not, we have to take each day as it comes.