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Things are bad today. I am stuck in my own head with my awful thoughts and I feel like I can't talk. I feel shut in. I'm in a really horrible place and I am unable to vocalise about it.
 
Thanks @Catsmother . I think I'm feeling really scared that we are going to be put back into hard lockdown. I can't bear the thought of that. I heard an MP say that it will be next summer before we can even consider life going back to normal. When I think of that, I get so panicky. I've got other issues going on but the situation with the virus is really making me feel much worse.
 
Thanks @Catsmother . I think I'm feeling really scared that we are going to be put back into hard lockdown. I can't bear the thought of that. I heard an MP say that it will be next summer before we can even consider life going back to normal. When I think of that, I get so panicky. I've got other issues going on but the situation with the virus is really making me feel much worse.
Yeah I feel the same way. It is a frightening thought, everything in life is uncertain. Makes you value the life we had before COVID :(
 
Things are bad today. I am stuck in my own head with my awful thoughts and I feel like I can't talk. I feel shut in. I'm in a really horrible place and I am unable to vocalise about it.

I can relate, to being scared, but we are in the storm together, with in the next 5 months or less there should be a vaccine out, also, I talk to my therapist all the time, although i have art that takes my mind away for a little while, You will be fine, YOu just need to keep talking with friends and if you have games to do so. Things should have been mandatory before all this occurred but no one has the guts to stick to plans, to much in this world is going on. what is a MP, I dont ever know if we will have normal back, it will be a new norm bc things are going to be slightly different, the elderly are more suspetable to getting the virus but anyone who has health issues can get the virus now, we just need to take care of ourselves to get thru this, it is good you vented
 
I hate the way this virus is getting out of control & causing needless mental health issues. Try to focus on what you CAN control. That is what we all need to do.
Things we can control- our own health. What time we go to sleep. How much water we drink. The real food we eat. Spending time w/ our loved ones. Breathing.
Anybody have others to add?
 
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