Is Brexit Keeping You Awake at Night? Brexit Induced Anxiety Support Thread

[BercowsFlyingFlamingo]

I'm lying awake unable to get to sleep, despite being shattered, because I'm worrying about what's going to happen this month. I know I'm not the only one who often wakes in the night and can't get back to sleep for thinking about things. It's the uncertainty I can't cope with very well. The not knowing. I can't plan very well for that apart from building my brexit stash. My worries are food and medicine availability and price rises.

So I thought it would be good to have a thread where people can come and share their worries about brexit or just chat to other insomniacs and have some company. Maybe share relaxation techniques or thought diversion techniques that might help in the here and now and things that might help longer term.

Here's a cup of hot chocolate/warm milk/dairy free option to help you sleep

@BercowsFlyingFlamingo , I think we need a photo of the cat
Hillary Clinton said that she dealt with stuff by watching cats on the internet.
May I recommend Cole and Marmalade or TinyKittens. Also Grandpa Mason if you can cope with a bit of emotional distraction.

He did a fair bit of bed hopping last night and spent time with all of us.

A beauty!

Anyone else awake? I woke at 3 as I usually do to take medication but now I can't sleep, got up, made a herbal tea, then heard stray kitty that we feed meowing outside catflap, so let her in. She sleeping now, lol! Can't believe that in a few hours all this is coming to a head.

I'm up Crunchy 🤧 I have a lurgy which has caused an agonising sore throat. Woke up in pain at 4am, and thought "Oh, it's the day for everything" and couldn't get back to sleep.

I've woken up a few times now. Trying to figure out how I can afford to emigrate again.

@TheElementsSong hope you feel better soon.

Get well soon Elements
It took me a while to get to sleep and I kept waking up.
I suspect today is just going to be another beginning of more stressful waiting.
I have my cup of tea and bowl of dry cereal and am sat waiting for it all to start.

Many chores to keep us busy this morning. Sewing Halloween themed cloth pads for dd this afternoon. Rare trip to the pub for a family birthday meal tonight.
Let the dice fall now where they may. I'm a general prepper. I've been lobbying on here and in real life for a border in the sea . That's what Johnson has caved in to get as a proposed WA 2.0.
I have written to my MP and said, with a heavy heart I beg you to support this deal.
I can do no more.

I’m with Helmetbymidnight. I voted to remain because we thought long and hard before voting. We listened to all the discussions and talked to our grandsons. It was their future, not ours as we are old.

I abhor the Daily Mail with their banging the drum for leaving. The people I know who voted to leave all read it. That would be okay if they thought further than the daily doctrine dished out before the referendum. After the result when the truth should have sunk in a great wave of dissonance appeared to descend on the leavers. How could they be wrong. Too many foreigners a neighbour told me and they were all in the waiting rooms at the hospital. So I asked how many foreign doctors were there treating everyone. No reply. Austerity has done a lot to persuade people that to leave would be a good idea and it would give the government a bloody nose. Well as I said at the time I can’t help being old but I can help being stupid. It is the lack of thinking that upset me the most. Also the lies we were told by the now PM.

Thanks everyone, turns out it’s just as well that I didn’t book tickets to march today as it seems I may have a chest infection 😷🤒 but I’ve been following the news and footage obsessively all day while DH wrangles the children.

I'm worried sick. Tbh I've been trying to avoid the news but was keeping up with updates today.

I'm not doing so well now. This has been a difficult month. Maybe it's the change in season / wet weather as well, though that doesn't normally affect me.

I just have a general lack of motivation and persistent malaise. I normally love going to the allotment, but I'm struggling to do that too. I'm just generally unhappy really. It's not good.

The thing to remember is that the regulars on this board understand the issues and implications far better than many of the idiots in the HoC
And there is nothing we can do to influence them

so we need to focus on looking after those around us
so that there are sane heads available for when the ordure interacts with the ventilation device

for all those struggling. It's sunny up north today which is making me feel better. I'm dressing this week though. I comfort eat when stressed and my belly can do without it. The weather is supposed to be nice tomorrow and Tuesday so I'm going to go out on my bike. My back is killing me at the moment though so I'm not sure I'll make my normal 11 miles along with the 5 mile round school hike.
Hope you all have a relaxing Sunday. Mine is going to be spent getting DDs to do homework and tidy their rooms. Sigh. Maybe we'll get an autumn walk in later and make apple crumble. Our trip to the cinema and a meal out yesterdAy was good for the soul.

We're off to our local wetlands place this morning. We have a picnic and will do the pumpkin trail. Should be nice!