Anyone else have COVID anxiety

[BakewellTart01]

Just need some reassurance before I give my head a wobble.
Basically we lasted until December 2021 before catching COVID. We isolated for almost 20 days due to the DC catching it first and by the time they were better both DH and I had it and couldn't take them to school! All in all a nightmare.

Up until the point of catching it I was safe but quite relaxed. We did meals out when we could. We safely met family and we did LFT when we were heading out anywhere.

Since having COVID I have been in a state of anxiety about catching COVID again. I have no idea why as when we had it we got off as mild and I was even asymptomatic.

Any others feeling the same? Or any advice to get me out of it?

I don’t. I have zero anxiety about covid itself. I do have anxiety about isolation. This month, my kids have had a sick bug resulting in 5 days isolation each (it went on a while & school/nursery wouldn’t have them back in, understandably), which was 10 days of having one of them at home ill. Three days after the second one went back to nursery, she came out in chicken pox.. we are on day 8 of isolating her again. She is so fed up, I am so fed up & my work hate me. I’m genuinely terrified we’ll get covid next week & have to isolate again 🥴🥴

What’s worrying you about covid? Isolation or the illness itself? Assuming you are vaxxed you are now very well protected. Vaccine antibodies & illness antibodies. Even if you caught it again, it’s likely be even more mild than it was 🤷🏼‍♀️ But I fully get the worry about isolation. But I also don’t spend my time worrying during actual day to day life. We go to the pub, restaurants, softplay, swimming, trampolining etc. Life has to resume. Happy to test, wear a mask & be vaxxed.. then on we go!

You have hit the nail on the head. It is isolation I am worried about. I am vaxxed and boosted. I just can't fathom doing another 3 weeks 😫. I am not worried about the illness as we aren't high risk and otherwise all healthy.

I do worry about being asymptomatic and passing on to vulnerable people but we regularly lateral flow.

We also still wear masks as I am not comfortable not wearing them just yet.

Thanks for the response. Makes me feel a lot better knowing others worry about isolation!

Isolation will probably be scrapped so I'd not worry about it!

No in a word

If you avoided it for two years, the odds are good you'll avoid it for a long time to come. Especially as you will be brimming with antibodies from recent infection.

Yes I worry. Just the unpredictable nature of it. All 3 DC got it in sept last year and DH and I managed to avoid. My dd who is 9 tested positive on Thursday again after 5 months free. My dad is here with terminal pancreatic cancer And he wants to go home! He’s starting to get more ill (with cancer) and I’m worried we catch it and cannot go over if he gets more sick for whatever reason. We are supposed to be in the clear zone after 28 feb. We’re triple vaccinated and doing daily tests but can I really dodge it a second time?

@lushmetender I am sorry to hear about your father. COVID has taken so much certainty from everyone. Whatever precious time you have left you will want to spend with your father. The anxiety is very real. I hope you do manage to escape unscathed for a second time.

Yes yes yes. I am the same op. We all had covid in December - then Dd had it again recently! None of us were overly poorly so I'm not scared of the illness. It's the isolation.

It took 9 days for us all to catch it so it took a long time to get through our house - nearly 3 weeks of isolation!! It was stressful with two dc with sen. They were climbing the walls. The isolation period is something I'd rather avoid again.

as above Dd has caught it again recently but it was just her this time but it was still stressful testing my other dc and us. Worried about getting it!

I am sick of covid and isolating. Testing too!

Massively. To an unreasonable degree.

Worked with someone (as a support provider, not a colleague) who refused to isolate and gave it to many of their peers and a parent whom it ended up killing.
Seeing it listed on the Parents death certificate earlier this week made me more unnerved than I have been by C19 in the last 2 years.

Trying to unpick and alleviate my anxiety with the help of the woebot app and the YouTube vids I use for bruxism.

@alloutofglove I am so sorry. That sounds incredibly impactful. I think with the easing restrictions people are taking a much more relaxed view of it and therefore not isolating.
I do understand there is a need to move on and as a country we will never all be in agreement as to when that is.
I really hope you can unpick this and move past the awful events.

@BakewellTart01
thankyou so much for your kindness. That anxiety got me a drubbing elsewhere on here so I've namechanged. Deep breath we shall overcome. Its the lack of absolutes that's the worst isn't it? Some of the healthiest folk I know have been the worst hit by it.

Really cannot recommend Woebot highly enough. Most useful app I've had in years.