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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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Quaggars · 19/09/2021 23:45

1

IncessantNameChanger · 20/09/2021 00:20

For myself 1.

For my family maybe 2 but they dont seem.too worried.

I have had covid and dispite ticking lots of boxes for being seriously ill I was fine. It changes your perspective once you have had it.

Dh is double vaxxed but he is extremely lax. A smoker and overweight so I worry about him. However he seems totally oblivious. He will buy food at the supermarket and eat it in the car without washing his hands. I'm not sure if can ever do that again. I think all that trauma has given me mild germaphobia.

NotMyCat · 20/09/2021 00:23

8
CEV and worried about things that come with covid, my body can't fight infections so pneumonia etc
Plus if something is rare, I get it Blush my consultant says he hears zebras and not horses with me

SidSparrow · 20/09/2021 00:28

I would be a 0 for covid. But I am about a 10 for restrictions. I rarely go out now because where I am - Scotland - everyone is still going about in masks. I can't bare to go out because the level of dystopia has my anxiety through the roof. It's my birthday next week and I've cancelled going out because I just can't face the abnormailty any longer. I thought I was going nuts but apparently mask anxiety is real. I can barely look at people. I just want it to end.

HailAdrian · 20/09/2021 00:29

1 and I have very little patience for anyone who still goes on like it's the end of the world.

Quaggars · 20/09/2021 00:30

I thought I was going nuts but apparently mask anxiety is real. I can barely look at people. I just want it to end

I'm honestly not being funny, but have you thought about getting some kind of help for your anxiety (if you aren't already) as that's not a healthy state to be in
Hope you're OK

Queenoftheashes · 20/09/2021 00:38

1

WolfKnuckle · 20/09/2021 00:41

0 and everyone I know, 0 or 1.

However, if I have to go on crowded trains and offices again (I simply don't believe face masks do much), or if they shut schools, I will go into level 10 meltdown.

SidSparrow · 20/09/2021 00:43

@Quaggars

The first doctor I had treated me like a fraud. It was awful. I complained but since he was the head of the practice, nothing was done. I moved house and therefore doctors, I've tried a couple of different drugs but the side affects were not worth it. I'm at a point now where I'm staying off everything, including alcohol, caffeine, and eating healthy, exercising, and now looking at more natural ways to improve this. But really,.the best thing that helps is staying home. I was really happy to find that this toddler sing song group had started up again, then they said it's all 2m apart and masks on at all times. I took that news quite badly, especially since I'd not long before it witnessed a busy town centre with pubs and cafes full with unmasked people - it all started to feel normal again. But anything for mum and toddler is still all masked. I just think there's no point looking for any groups anymore, it's the same everywhere.

Covidworries · 20/09/2021 00:46

@Mumblechum0
How do you know you had covid in march 2020? Tests werent easy to get back then

PermanentTemporary · 20/09/2021 00:49

I know I had it in April 2020 because I had a sudden illness involving nontypical symptoms then was tested for antibodies in the vaccine trial in May - turned out I had them.

housemdwaswrong · 20/09/2021 02:28

5 about catching it (teacher but immunosupressed so not sure if I'll have mounted a response to the vaccine or not, though I have a booster jab next Monday). 8 that unvaccinated/,vulnerable people will fill the wards alongside people ill with seasonal illnesses and divert resources even further/ again, thus depriving people of vital, for them, medical services.

cantkeepawayforever · 20/09/2021 07:35

@WolfKnuckle

0 and everyone I know, 0 or 1.

However, if I have to go on crowded trains and offices again (I simply don't believe face masks do much), or if they shut schools, I will go into level 10 meltdown.

So what you are saying is that your current level of anxiety us low, because you are living a life within a zone that you feel safe. However, if you had to work in the kind if conditions that for many of us are unavoidable - a school, for example, totally unmasked and routinely crowded - you would score much higher?

I wonder how general that is - that people have carved out a space or suite of activities that form their comfort zone so their current anxiety is very low, but would feel very anxious transported to a different scenario?

Interestingly, I went to a leisure group doing an activity that has always been labelled ‘high risk’ for the first time at the weekend. Almost all those attending were the ‘battle hardened’ - NHS staff, school staff, retail staff. Those who had predominantly worked from home during the pandemic did not attend as they felt it to be too risky.

MarshaBradyo · 20/09/2021 07:43

Interestingly, I went to a leisure group doing an activity that has always been labelled ‘high risk’ for the first time at the weekend. Almost all those attending were the ‘battle hardened’ - NHS staff, school staff, retail staff. Those who had predominantly worked from home during the pandemic did not attend as they felt it to be too risky

I don’t feel this, I don’t avoid anything as risky. Not sure I’m seeing this amongst others really

NantesElephant · 20/09/2021 08:10

All our circumstances are different aren’t they? I am not especially vulnerable to the virus and am vaccinated, so don’t feel anxious particularly, but I am also a carer of a disabled adult whose welfare will suffer if I am laid up in bed for a week. It would be a complete ball ache if I was laid up. I still get all the food shopping delivered because it’s convenient and saves hassle as well as being safer.

TheGrumpyGoat · 20/09/2021 08:30

Interestingly, I went to a leisure group doing an activity that has always been labelled ‘high risk’ for the first time at the weekend. Almost all those attending were the ‘battle hardened’ - NHS staff, school staff, retail staff. Those who had predominantly worked from home during the pandemic did not attend as they felt it to be too risky

I worked from home but would rather have been out at the office. I don’t have any anxiety about attending large events, in fact I went to a large indoor concert at the weekend.

Snailhaterz2 · 20/09/2021 08:58
  1. I'm 60-something and obese so originally I was concerned that if I got it, it wouldn't go well. Now fully vaccinated, so levels of concern a lot lower. My life is generally quite low risk - wfh, live alone - so I feel I can add in risk through doing other activities, and am - more or less - back to doing everything I've done before. The only thing I haven't done yet is travel, and that's mainly because Easyjet recently cancelled my flights.
TheKeatingFive · 20/09/2021 08:59

I was probably never more than a 3 in fairness.

ScarlettSunset · 20/09/2021 09:07

Probably about 5 or 6. I was lower but then someone in my family became more vulnerable and now I'm concerned about the risks of inadvertently catching it and passing it to them.
I'm trying to live my life relatively normally but still being careful, wearing masks etc

Cafeaulait27 · 20/09/2021 16:17

1 or 2 when it comes to catching it. I’m double jabbed and about to have a baby.

When it comes to worrying about my elderly parents I’m about a 5, and maybe a 7 when it comes to worrying about everything shutting down again and ‘will we ever get back to normal’.

I just wish covid wasn’t a thing anymore, I wish I could see my midwifes face, I wish I could see people’s faces, I wish stuff wasn’t still closed or reduced due to covid although things are much better than they were.

BogRollBOGOF · 20/09/2021 16:31

Been at 1 since May 2020 when it became clear that my risk profile would be very unfortunate to be at significant risk.

It's living with the measures (currently fine; England) and the consequences of them that concerns me far more.

It was fabulous to get back to a proper running race with an atmosphere this weekend.

I don't want to be ill as with any illness, and the chance of being run-down for a while afterwards is definitely not attractive, but living a restricted, isolated life is also very damaging in body and mind.

TheRealMrsMorningstar · 20/09/2021 16:45

I've gone from 10 at the start (I'm an obese asthmatic in my 40s and went into a tailspin) to 1 now. Fully vaccinated (I know it doesn't stop me getting or spreading) and just want life to be normal for me and my kids. I still wear a mask when shopping etc but I am living life as close to normal as it possible.

Staffy1 · 20/09/2021 17:00

7 having heard from double jabbed people who have still been very unwell with covid.

EllaPaella · 20/09/2021 17:08

1 at the moment.

I think it's inevitable that we will all get this at some point, I refuse to live my life in fear.
I have taken all reasonable steps to help myself (double jabbed, wear a mask indoors in crowded areas etc) but after that there is nothing more I can do. I can't spend my life worrying about it and certainly can't control the actions of others so while I have some concern I don't have much anxiety.

I don't want to get flu or norovirus either but realise that other than take sensible steps to be careful there isn't much more I can do.

Perfumista · 20/09/2021 18:45

I was generally OK with it. I have a DS11 and DS9 and I was in work most days last year during lockdown, whilst my partner WFH. I then worked from home for a few months and home schooled. It was hard going but we got through. DP and I were all jabbed by June and felt OK. However, both boys are now off school, having tested positive and us parents don't have to isolate. It feels wrong. I feel anxious. I have to go into work. I have the equipment to WFH but they need people in as work is immensely busy public sector). Thankfully my boys have been ok, but there has been many a "what if" moment. My anxiety hit an all time high today. It has crept up on me and then-boom- floored me. I am perimenopausal, as are so many of my friends, but we all seem to be feeling it qt the moment