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2beautifulbabs · 14/12/2021 06:58

I'm fed up as well it just feels like an ongoing nightmare.
I don't think the country could survive another lockdown the government can't keep bailing companies out it was apparent the last lockdowns how many people lost jobs businesses went under.
Schools can't really shut again unless all teachers all of a sudden drop down at once.
Home school didn't work for majority my DS is Autistic and I found it very hard.

If anything the only things I could see the Government try and do again is continue the work from home if you can and no one allowed in any ones houses perhaps even a limit again on amount of people in shops.
Anything more than that ain't going to happen i very much doubt many will even abide by that considering the shit storm that's come about with Boris and his lot.

Just got to keep hoping it will get better.

Borisjohnsonshairbrush · 14/12/2021 07:02

Yep.

I'm supposed to be going abroad on Sunday. I need this. My SAD is through the roof. My mind cant settle.
I've hit the wall now and I'm like at the 'whats the point" level now

Fendidntdrake · 14/12/2021 07:27

I'm in Wales and over the Christmas period of two weeks my therapist is away, my supported activity groups close and my hours with support workers are greatly reduced. I live alone and will spend a few hours with my mum on Christmas day but then there are three more days with no public transport so I can't see anyone and no support. Then new year and the same thing so I lose my support hours from the Monday.
None of my needs change, bit everything shuts down. I struggle with suicidal.ideation every year in the week between Christmas and New year, and the thought of lockdown/greater restrictions in January (am in wales) is pushing me close to the edge. I am very scared

Schulte · 14/12/2021 07:36

Me. DD’s asthma is completely out of control and we can’t get her the help she needs because medical services are overstretched. It’s scary.

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AlandAnna · 14/12/2021 07:41

Relate to most of you. My anxieties are about restrictions / friendships / when will this end rather than Covid itself.

Not sure what we can do to support each other but I hope admitting it to ourselves may help.

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AlandAnna · 14/12/2021 07:44

@Fendidntdrake

I'm in Wales and over the Christmas period of two weeks my therapist is away, my supported activity groups close and my hours with support workers are greatly reduced. I live alone and will spend a few hours with my mum on Christmas day but then there are three more days with no public transport so I can't see anyone and no support. Then new year and the same thing so I lose my support hours from the Monday. None of my needs change, bit everything shuts down. I struggle with suicidal.ideation every year in the week between Christmas and New year, and the thought of lockdown/greater restrictions in January (am in wales) is pushing me close to the edge. I am very scared

Please find someone you can confide in over this period. They will be glad you did

Remember how much better late spring / summer is.

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MarshaBradyo · 14/12/2021 07:46

No massive divisions, nobody shouting abuse at me for wearing a mask on the train because everyone was.

People shouted abuse at you?

Whereabouts are you. Tbh your o/s experience sounds like mine here - masks in PT no issue, people just getting on with life.

Op I think it’s tough atm hang in there

MarshaBradyo · 14/12/2021 07:47

I agree op it’s ever increasing restrictions that concern me not getting Covid

NothingIsWrong · 14/12/2021 07:54

I was in a very bad place last summer, dragged myself out with drugs and a new job and I can feel myself slipping back. I don't want the drugs as they make me feel nothing at all, literally I exist as a husk.

Tried to tell my husband and he's got no emotional intelligence at all, walked away from me when I was trying to explain I'd had reasonably serious suicidal thoughts. He's previously called me a nag and abusive for trying to talk about my feelings with him.

On top of that I've never really known how to Christmas properly so I find this a very hard and stressful time of year at the best of times.

I need to call my GP but work is so full on I usually miss the tiny slot you can call in and now they are focussing on boosters so nothing available

Sunshinedreaming2022 · 14/12/2021 08:01

Yes. School worker here currently signed off with depression which I’ve never experienced before this year. Certainly not to this extend. I’ve been struggling all year and then when they increased the restrictions again I had a breakdown. Terrified of schools closing (but not closing) again. I don’t think any parents understand the massive impact that had on support staffs mental health.

DarknessAndLight · 14/12/2021 08:02

@MarshaBradyo

I agree op it’s ever increasing restrictions that concern me not getting Covid

I agree. I’m more terrified of governments than getting covid.

TreborBore · 14/12/2021 08:34

How awful to read

Work is flat out and I’m just hanging in there waiting for the Xmas break. Massively craving a winter sun holiday.

DoubleShotEspresso · 14/12/2021 08:42

I'm trying very hard to be positive but equally trying very hard to limit our contacts in run ups to Christmas as that's pretty much our only likely exposure as a household.
I am though increasingly angry at the sheer incompetence, negligence, deception and disrespect we have all consistently been shown. I'm not sure I'll cope with another full lockdown in January it's such a bleak time anyway managing my own mood around this is increasingly challenging.

DressingPafe · 14/12/2021 08:48

As depressing as it sounds, I have now told myself that this is it until 2025/26. If things improve sooner, great. That would be amazing. But at the beginning I told myself 2 years (as they kept saying pandemics last 2 yrs on average) and I ended up disappointed that I feel no further forward. I can’t mentally deal with thinking maybe by next Christmas and so on. I know people don’t like comparisons to the war, but for me telling myself that this is the “war” in my lifetime does help. I can then focus more on the positives.

I appreciate that I am in a privileged position. I don’t currently have worries over work/health/finances that so many are dealing with. So for me it is just the mental side of life in a pandemic.

nojudgementhere · 14/12/2021 08:58

@Fendidntdrake - I'm so sorry to hear how hard things are for you. Hang on in there - there will be better days ahead. I hope you get the support you need - try and ask for some more help if you can. Xx

Schulte · 14/12/2021 12:37

@NothingIsWrong so sorry I recognise the husband with no emotional intelligence, I have one too and he has said the same things to me. It’s so hard. Do you have friends you can talk to?

I have a mental health assessment on Thursday and I can’t wait, I desperately need some support. Mostly because of DD.

Schulte · 14/12/2021 12:39

I’m scared of Christmas too. I hate it when everything closes.

SofiaMichelle · 14/12/2021 12:51

No. I'm fine.

IcedPurple · 14/12/2021 13:24

In some ways I feel much better than last winter. Restrictions are pretty mild and on a day-to-day basis, I can do most of what I want, albeit it with less spontaneity and with an overriding air of tension. I also don't think there will be any major Xmas restrictions. By contrast, last winter was grim.

On the other hand, we had started the vaccine roll-out and there was cause for optimism there. Now, however, despite a highly successful vaccination programme, we're not back to square one, but still surrounded by doubts and fears. I'm starting to wonder, like posters above, if this is just how life is going to be for the foreseeable. And that is not a happy prospect.

XenoBitch · 14/12/2021 13:28

@MarshaBradyo

I agree op it’s ever increasing restrictions that concern me not getting Covid

Same here too.

milly74 · 14/12/2021 13:30

yes, since March 2020 it seems

milly74 · 14/12/2021 13:31

to clarify not over covid but the restrictions that keep being imposed

Fendidntdrake · 14/12/2021 17:58

@AlandAnna and @nojudgementhere
Thank you so much. I have flagged my fears and concerns up with the organisation that supports me and they are looking for someone to cover New Year's Eve which is the worst day.

MrsGlum · 14/12/2021 18:36

Yes - more than I ever have in my entire life and that includes losing my mum when I was very young, having both my DC experience lifelong serious health conditions, looking after my frail grandmother for 17 years from my mid 20’s - early 40’s and losing my Dad to Covid last year.
All during those times the world was “relatively normal”.
Now, due to the relentless Covid situation and all the harm it has done, and continues to do in one way or another, to my family I have never been so low.
I cannot see any light at the end of this tunnel

bookworm14 · 14/12/2021 18:36

I am feeling low and hopeless right now. I just can’t see how this is ever going to end. I’m not worried about catching covid (I’ve already had it, plus three jabs, so if I get it again it’s likely to be mild) - I’m worried about our old way of life being gone forever.