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Where are you with covid anxiety?

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Itstheprinciple · 19/09/2021 09:16

On a scale of 1-10 with 1 being not at all anxious, pretty much getting on as normal and 10 being dreadfully anxious with it still having a huge impact on day to day life where are you?

I'm definitely around a 1 or 2 but I work with people and know people who are turning down invitations to events and still incredibly worried. I was just wondering how common each opinion is.

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MsAwesomeDragon · 19/09/2021 11:52

Well I've got it now, so am basically at a 1 now.

I had been about a 3 or 4. So I was going to work and volunteering at Brownies but not really doing anything else. Of course, I caught it at work.

RuleWithAWoodenFoot · 19/09/2021 11:55

I'm a teacher, I'm on the vulnerable list (surprised to find that out in February), my partner has asthma and is immunocompromised, but wasn't on the vulnerable list because he had just stopped taking steroids.

So, I'm going to get it. I wasn't remotely concerned about getting it until I had a panicked call from my GP in February. I have significant history of DVT/PE and a blood clotting protein. I'm sort of assuming I'll be 'fine' because of vaccines, but I've got a nagging doubt at the back of my mind that I might be 'the one' who isn't fine.

On a scale of 1-10 of anxiety, I'm probably a 3. If I added my concern about my partner into it, it's probably a 6.

I'm very concerned/much more concerned about my workload if we end up having loads of kids off at once, but so far that's not happened.

Augusta1 · 19/09/2021 11:57

I’m a 1 (actually I’m a zero but I wasn’t sure if that was an option!) 😄

Mynameismargot · 19/09/2021 11:58

Maybe a 3? I wasn't concerned at all but I had sepsis recently and recovery has been slow and I don't really fancy adding covid on top of it.

katesbushh · 19/09/2021 12:08

For me on a personal level I would say about a 3. Seeing DH so unwell he had to go into hospital (was okay in the end) was awful. I had it and felt like shit but nowhere near as bad as him. I do worry about my mum and dad though being older and mum being CEV.

On a professional level about a 9. I'm NHS and see how bad it can be and the thought of it going to shit again terrifies me.

MangeTaSoupe · 19/09/2021 12:24

I'm a 10. Severe immunosuppression and zero antibodies. Vaccines don't work for me. Mortality from covid is mid twenties percent in my group and condition/drugs. Child at school, no mitigations, partner works, I resigned as work too unsafe, just waiting to catch it.
I go for long walks, and see people at a distance outside. I'll wear a mask in the pharmacy but don't do shops or any indoor places, or other people's houses. Can't get a haircut since freedom day. Nowhere is safe now because of no masks, and levels high, delta worse than original so my position is much worse than last year. I was going to quieter cafes, restaurants before Freedom day as levels were lower and there were mitigations.

Some friends and close family understand but I suspect many think I'm being over cautious as I look fit. I'm not sure how I will cope with winter as others will want to meet indoors. Sometimes I'm scared my partner and friends will get fed up with me not joining in with social life and just drop me. I feel a bit pointless at times tbh.
There is a new antibody drug but you have to get ill in hospital to get it.
I'm not looking for sympathy, just hope posting my experience will help some people understand if their vulnerable friends are joining in with back to normal.
Before the pandemic I did plenty fitness classes, worked and had a full social life, didn't worry about much really. The only way I can get back to my life is for virus levels to be controlled.

TweeterandtheMonkeyman · 19/09/2021 12:25

For myself - not anxious at all as I’ve just had it (double vaccinated) . Dc had it at the same time and were absolutely fine.

Maybe a 2 as I hate the idea of any more disruption to schools , strain on the NHS over winter (my mum needs an op and I am worried about it being further delayed) . A future variant which completely evades the vaccines is a worry as well.

TheGrumpyGoat · 19/09/2021 12:27

My biggest worry about catching it is the 10 day isolation. I’m not concerned about the illness itself.
I am very concerned about what restrictions the winter may potentially bring.

MangeTaSoupe · 19/09/2021 12:30

Oh and before anyone has a go, I don't want lockdowns forever, schools shut etc. My dcs are at uni and school, my parents are having a great retirement, my partners joys his sport and I don't want my old boss to lose his business. I would like masks though to help people at risk to do the basics, and for people like me who have to work to get to work more safely and be able to work more safely.

QueenofKattegat · 19/09/2021 12:38

Is zero an option? Zero if so. Never been worried about it. What honestly scares me is the say people have reacted.

FromTheAshes · 19/09/2021 12:43

I'm about a 7. I'm a single mum, mid forties, with no family assistance. If I get a 'mild' case (ie 'just' need to take to my bed for three days or so), I have nobody to help with my child so will just have to run myself into the ground again. She's just started school, and my work are insisting we all return to the office. I have Aspergers and managing my environment is really important to me for my mental health. I don't feel I am being allowed to manage my family's risk any more.

TheGrumpyGoat · 19/09/2021 12:47

@FromTheAshes

I'm about a 7. I'm a single mum, mid forties, with no family assistance. If I get a 'mild' case (ie 'just' need to take to my bed for three days or so), I have nobody to help with my child so will just have to run myself into the ground again. She's just started school, and my work are insisting we all return to the office. I have Aspergers and managing my environment is really important to me for my mental health. I don't feel I am being allowed to manage my family's risk any more.
I had a ‘mild’ case and didn’t need to take to my bed at all, along with many others I know. For many it is no worse than a mild cold.
vickyc90 · 19/09/2021 12:51

For catching covid zero been swimming in it since day one. The disruption it's causes possibly about a 5, the disruption really effected my husband mentally

InFiveMins · 19/09/2021 12:56
  1. Not worried about covid at all.

What I am worried about is how every other illness has taken a back seat because for some reason covid has taken precedence over everything else for the last 18 months. The impact on mental health in particular is devastating.

LucyGrey · 19/09/2021 13:02

1 about the virus.
7 about the possibility of further restrictions coming in over autumn and winter

slavetothekittens · 19/09/2021 13:03

About 7. Had covid badly summer 2020 and my lungs are still affected. Had one vaccination but was refused the second because of my breathing problems ( got all the way to the vaccination chair only to be sent home again) Have a public facing job and although I still wear a mask, customers seem to be wearing them less and less.

Happy to go to a not too crowded restaurant but wouldn't feel safe in a large crowd so my gigging days are over for the time being at least.

Whentheydontmeanwhattheysay · 19/09/2021 13:12

8

CEV household member so I’m pretty worried. Especially after last week, when visitors to our building had a cough, but felt they were perfectly fine to still tour the building because they’d done a LFT.

SpringRainbow · 19/09/2021 13:48

I’ve not particularly been scared of catching Covid for a very long time to be honest.

I am (fairly) young, my health isn’t too bad. I am a little overweight but not largely so (could do with exercising and eating healthily more consistently).

I would probably be poorly but I am unlikely to be hospitalised or die if I caught Covid. I may also end up with long Covid I guess.

I am worried about what impact further restrictions and lockdowns would have on us as a family. I don’t know if I can carry us all through it again.

I am also concerned (not surprised) by the (lack) of action by the Government/ world. I do wish that we would have followed a global strategy, rather than every country out for itself.

Stuffin · 19/09/2021 13:50

1

Waxonwaxoff0 · 19/09/2021 14:15

@FromTheAshes

I'm about a 7. I'm a single mum, mid forties, with no family assistance. If I get a 'mild' case (ie 'just' need to take to my bed for three days or so), I have nobody to help with my child so will just have to run myself into the ground again. She's just started school, and my work are insisting we all return to the office. I have Aspergers and managing my environment is really important to me for my mental health. I don't feel I am being allowed to manage my family's risk any more.
I'm a single mum and had Covid last month, I did not need to stay in bed and nor did anyone else I know who has had it.
TreaslakeandBack · 19/09/2021 14:20

I think there’s stay in bed and stay in bed. Able to get up, pour cereal, load and unload washer/ dishwasher/ tumble dryer, make a sandwich for lunch, oven food for tea and stick on CBeebies would most definitely be doable with mild Covid. That’s likely to be the level illness you get if 40s and double jabbed.

Lovelydovey · 19/09/2021 14:22

5

Rationally I know my risk of serious illness is low as I am young, heathy and double vaccinated. But I lost both my parents to covid earlier in the year (both in their sixties) and then an uncle (in his fifties, Double vaccinated but CEV) in the summer. And that experience and the hours spent on covid wards has had an impact on my anxiety around covid. I am now seeing family and friends in small groups, but very nervous of large crowds - especially inside. I know things need to get back to normal and so next week I am commuting on public transport to the office. I am very nervous about other people and whether they will take the precautions I want. But I’ve got to bite the bullet and get used to it.

bluetongue · 19/09/2021 14:22

Slightly concerned for my parents in their 70’s despite that both being double jabbed. Not concerned about myself at all as far as physical health goes..

I do have a generalised anxiety about the Covid measures where I live. I’m in Australia and travelling just to another state at the moment is a gamble and some people have been locked out of their home state for months. Being trapped where I live for who knows how much longer has made me feel claustrophobic. We also have mask mandates and I personally hate wearing masks so am avoiding shopping (apart from grocery shopping) and other activities where masks are needed at the moment.

bluetongue · 19/09/2021 14:23

Gosh that must have been horrific. I’m so sorry Flowers

bluetongue · 19/09/2021 14:25

Sorry. Forgot to add a number. I guess I’d say 4. For me it’s more a sense of loss and grief about life not being the same.