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    Did you ever feel anxious and lonely in this Covid19 outbreak?

    Hey guys
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    How is everyone? I dont know if I could share this here - I just wanted to breath a little.

    I hope all is going well with you guys. I, myself don't feel good, I begin to ruminate things when this Covid19 started, especially during lockdown. I have this feeling that it is unsafe to go out, thinking what if the person I meet is infected, what if the places I go is contaminated. I also feel it is unsafe to have the vaccine even it is approved and rolled-out to the public. I am really worried of what will happen tomorrow. How can we survive all of these things?

    I do smile and laugh,...but deep inside I have this anxiety if we ever gonna be real safe...

    Did you also feel the same way?

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    Re: Did you ever feel anxious and lonely in this Covid19 outbreak?

    Yes, I did feel the same at first. You definitely aren’t alone in that. But I had to keep going to work every day so it kind of forced me to adapt somewhat.

    That being said - I still won’t go to shops or in a restaurant to eat. I’m having all my groceries delivered. I use hand sanitizer by the truckload at work it feels like. It does worry me a little that these behaviors are going to be hard to unlearn once it’s deemed “safe” again. But it’s getting me through the days right now so I’ll cross that bridge when the time comes.

    As to the vaccine - I will be taking it when it’s made available to me. Yes I’m somewhat concerned about long term effects but I feel like the reward outweighs the risk.

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    Re: Did you ever feel anxious and lonely in this Covid19 outbreak?

    Quote Originally Posted by meltedchic View Post
    Hey guys
    ,

    How is everyone? I dont know if I could share this here - I just wanted to breath a little.

    I hope all is going well with you guys. I, myself don't feel good, I begin to ruminate things when this Covid19 started, especially during lockdown. I have this feeling that it is unsafe to go out, thinking what if the person I meet is infected, what if the places I go is contaminated. I also feel it is unsafe to have the vaccine even it is approved and rolled-out to the public. I am really worried of what will happen tomorrow. How can we survive all of these things?

    I do smile and laugh,...but deep inside I have this anxiety if we ever gonna be real safe...

    Did you also feel the same way?
    In spades.

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    Re: Did you ever feel anxious and lonely in this Covid19 outbreak?

    I find it useful only to watch the news on a need to know basis. Can't do with all the additional drama. Just tell me what I need to know - like last night when Uncle Boris finally cancelled Christmas - then I'm back to watching Some Mother's Do Ave Em or Porridge.

    I wear my mask, sanitise my hands, give myself (and others) space, and I'm autistic so the social distancing hasn't been hard to comply with , and I go out when I need to go out. I also carry a can of paint so I can spray a big X on the back of anybody who makes any kind of noise which resembles a cough.

    That said, I have so much other shit going on that my brain has yet to catastrophise over Coronavirus. It's a case of I've got 99 health problems, and that's way down the list.

    Check your history books. We've been through shit like this (and worse) numerous before, and in times when there was no NHS. Bodies were piled up the streets! Mankind is still here (cocking things up) and we will come through this.

    Sometime next year - life will back to relative normality. Until then, we have to sit tight and watch comedy!
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    Re: Did you ever feel anxious and lonely in this Covid19 outbreak?

    Quote Originally Posted by NoraB View Post
    I find it useful only to watch the news on a need to know basis. Can't do with all the additional drama. Just tell me what I need to know - like last night when Uncle Boris finally cancelled Christmas - then I'm back to watching Some Mother's Do Ave Em or Porridge.

    I wear my mask, sanitise my hands, give myself (and others) space, and I'm autistic so the social distancing hasn't been hard to comply with , and I go out when I need to go out. I also carry a can of paint so I can spray a big X on the back of anybody who makes any kind of noise which resembles a cough.

    That said, I have so much other shit going on that my brain has yet to catastrophise over Coronavirus. It's a case of I've got 99 health problems, and that's way down the list.

    Check your history books. We've been through shit like this (and worse) numerous before, and in times when there was no NHS. Bodies were piled up the streets! Mankind is still here (cocking things up) and we will come through this.

    Sometime next year - life will back to relative normality. Until then, we have to sit tight and watch comedy!
    We most certainly have been through far worse than this many moons ago, but at least we didn't have social media and certain newspapers constantly hyping up the situation back then!

    Most people just rose to the occasion and helped each other, rather than try to outdo each other with their own weird beliefs and agendas, simply because Joe Bloggs says so on Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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    Re: Did you ever feel anxious and lonely in this Covid19 outbreak?

    Quote Originally Posted by Lencoboy View Post
    We most certainly have been through far worse than this many moons ago, but at least we didn't have social media and certain newspapers constantly hyping up the situation back then!
    True, but someone would paint big cross on ya front door.

    Most people just rose to the occasion and helped each other, rather than try to outdo each other with their own weird beliefs and agendas, simply because Joe Bloggs says so on Facebook, Twitter, etc.
    Social media has a lot to answer for, that's for sure!
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    Re: Did you ever feel anxious and lonely in this Covid19 outbreak?

    Thank you all for sharing your own experience during this pandemic, I feel better now. I just felt alone fighting this situation, and your thoughts and recommendations have helped me convince myself otherwise and everyone is doing their best to cope up and to survive. A friend suggested that I should listen to delta waves on youtube to calm my mind, so far, it's doing well to keep me at peace when I listen.

    There's no doubt, worse kind of pandemic happened so long ago, that I would never dream of having it happen to this day ever. I just hope, that this pandemic hype will be the last one to occur for the longest time.

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    Re: Did you ever feel anxious and lonely in this Covid19 outbreak?

    Quote Originally Posted by meltedchic View Post
    A friend suggested that I should listen to delta waves on youtube to calm my mind, so far, it's doing well to keep me at peace when I listen.
    Imagining Tom Hardy shaving my cactus legs (with zero repulsion) helps me.

    Also, he has no clothes on.

    Be still my quivering ovaries.
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    Re: Did you ever feel anxious and lonely in this Covid19 outbreak?

    Quote Originally Posted by NoraB View Post
    Imagining Tom Hardy shaving my cactus legs (with zero repulsion) helps me.

    Also, he has no clothes on.

    Be still my quivering ovaries.
    I second to that lol.

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    Re: Did you ever feel anxious and lonely in this Covid19 outbreak?

    Quote Originally Posted by NoraB View Post
    I find it useful only to watch the news on a need to know basis....
    @NoraB Your comment made me remember an article I bumped in the net that says "Stay informed—but don’t obsessively check the news" (here is the article link - https://www.helpguide.org/articles/a...us-anxiety.htm). I agree with you. Nowadays, some news are really not news at all, they are not giving honest information, almost are fake news. And another thing that I need to really cut down is my time on social media - twitter posts and comments are not helping with my anxiety :(

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