How scared are you of brexit?

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Because I’m trying to work out if I’m a normal amount of scared or if I’m losing it.

I’m terrified of the recession that is looming after brexit, increased food prices, reduced public spending, which will lead to more homelessness and misery and perhaps even more violence on the streets. I’m terrified of the NHS being privatised, of not having access to cheap fruit and vegetables, of not being able to travel to europe.

Perhaps most of all I’m scared of a return to the troubles in Northern Ireland. I can’t velieve people would rather have a border than a backstop.

I’m scared of the way Eu migrants are being treated and how normal it has become for the Eu to be hated and mocked and blamed for everything. I’m scared of what this is doing to my friends, my colleagues, my community. I feel complicit and I don’t know how to protest or complain.

I’m a Londoner, and I’m scared of the ‘metropolitan elite’ conspiracy theories that both the left and the right seen to hold about people like me (I guess I’m what could be called ‘a centrist’). It makes me scared to talk about any of this.

I’m terrified for the future of our country, for my son’s future, for my elderly parents’ future, for our jobs. We are small, community minded people with small incomes. I spend a lot of my time volunteering in the local community. I feel like I should have been getting rich and hoarding money instead because it’s all going to be dog eat dog very soon.

I am losing sleep. I can’t concentrate at work. I find myself bursting into tears and getting angry for no reason other than a total; overwhelming fear of the future. I feel like my future has been taken away. Am i going mad? Or is it just the uncertainty? Or am I really part of an elite that can’t handle change?

For what it’s worth, I think the Eu needs to reform and the uk needs a big political shake up. But I think brexit is going to make all our problems worse, not better.

Does anyone else feel this way?

time4chocolate, bellinisurge, sorry, I should clarify. I'm not a prepper beyond the usual supplies in case I fall ill or some snow blocks the lane as it's doing at the moment. I was curious as to how the heavy duty preppers are conducting their preparations based upon the challenges faced by people living in countries that have suffered shortages lasting more than a few days which don't result from catastrophic destruction of infrastructure (i.e. large scale natural disasters).

@Gronky , I have lived under martial law and with food shortages and rationing in another country. I guess subconsciously, I was doing a lot of what you suggest. Tough times were so long lasting and I was obviously a young foreign "girl" on my own that I found people helped me a lot. If there was a big shocking change, though, I'm not so sure.
I personally do not think Brexit will get like that. I suspect it will be a bit grim and then more expensive. And people will find a way. But I'd rather we weren't flushing our country down the toilet.