A safe place for anxiety sufferers to share.

HughFreakingDillon

my daughter's (13) anxiety is through the fucking roof over this. every second thing she says she's asking about COVID-19. it's getting unbearable. 

hedonist

I wonder if therapists will see an increase in patients over this.

lastexit, just listen to your gut.  If you want to wait, wait...it'll be there whenever you're ready.  Wishing you well.

lastexit78

hedonist said:

I wonder if therapists will see an increase in patients over this.

lastexit, just listen to your gut.  If you want to wait, wait...it'll be there whenever you're ready.  Wishing you well.

Thanks all, yeah I think I'm going to wait until things on the whole start improving. Would love to remember this album as being the one I listened to during a time when the world came together to defeat a Pandemic. Not the one I played during some really scary times. I don't usually have extreme anxiety, but when mine comes on its strong. Good thing is I usually feel better after a rough day mentally so hopefully that means tomorrow is a good day. Take care everyone and just keep remembering we'll all get through this!

Fifthelement

Sending warm thoughts to all.

myoung321

 Flew the drone around... made a short vid.

https://youtu.be/9V2Bs0YV0mI

lastexitlondon

Well my dear friends. The time i have been scared about  for so long is here.
We are now in self isolation.  My daughters bf is ill with cough and fever. She feels like a cold . She is at his house. She came here 2 days ago and shared a cake with me and my 2 year old. Her house lives my asthmatic son. 
We are fucked.

hedonist

I hope keeping to yourselves helps, physically.  Can you get tested if symptoms present or worsen within your home?

lastexitlondon

They dont  test anymore here. Its stay at home. So nobody even knows if they have it or something else.  Its terrifying.  Only when you need hospitalising will they test.

what dreams

lastexit78 said:

hedonist said:

I wonder if therapists will see an increase in patients over this.

lastexit, just listen to your gut.  If you want to wait, wait...it'll be there whenever you're ready.  Wishing you well.

Thanks all, yeah I think I'm going to wait until things on the whole start improving. Would love to remember this album as being the one I listened to during a time when the world came together to defeat a Pandemic. Not the one I played during some really scary times. I don't usually have extreme anxiety, but when mine comes on its strong. Good thing is I usually feel better after a rough day mentally so hopefully that means tomorrow is a good day. Take care everyone and just keep remembering we'll all get through this!

I completely understand this. Before the tour decision was made for us, I kept thinking I could never listen to PJ again if my mom died as a result of my travel. 

Hedo is right. The album will be there for you when you're ready. 

Sorry to hear about the turn of events for you. Thinking of you from afar.

lastexitlondon

Nothing happened over night . 
I took half a valium this morn. Did nothing.
Im thinking i could still get to my allotment without seeing anyone. Fresh air i just need the  emotional strength to get up and go. Nothing at all to watch
 All sport off. Nowhere to go
 My partner is great with our 2 year old but alreadt its getting very  strained. Im like an invalid  atm with fear that i cannot hault i just keep seeing my kids dead in my head 

mickeyrat

read up on UK  response. Boris is taking a huge risk with these decisions.

lastexitlondon

He is a  baffoon and put many in the firing line.

what dreams

OCD and anxiety disorder treatment can be complicated by coronavirus fears

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/ocd-and-anxiety-disorder-treatment-can-be-complicated-by-coronavirus-fears/2020/03/13/6b851d60-63ce-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.html

Code for free 30 Day Pass if you are not a Washington Post subscriber and want to read the article: 
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lastexitlondon

That is my diagnosis . And i can say that living in isolation in a pandemic is the ultimate scenario for suffers there is no higher level. I have had some of my darkest thoughts  last 2 days. I have no words anymore.
I couldnt get the link to work but this mental illness has robbed me of 15 years where i have  been living like im in a pandemic and now we are.

brianlux

what dreams said:

OCD and anxiety disorder treatment can be complicated by coronavirus fears

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/ocd-and-anxiety-disorder-treatment-can-be-complicated-by-coronavirus-fears/2020/03/13/6b851d60-63ce-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.html

Code for free 30 Day Pass if you are not a Washington Post subscriber and want to read the article: 
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I will read that but right now I have to go wash my hands again.

Man, isn't it the truth though.  I look back on my little OCD things like, "Remember, Brian, turn off each burner on the stove before you leave home (even though I know damn well they are all off)".   Stuff like that seems funny to me now.

And the anxiety.  Oh man, I wish I could just go back to the pre-COVID variety.  At least I knew then that half of it was in my head, not on a damn door knob. 

I think I will be alright on the days my wife agrees to stay home and hide with me.  The other days are a drag.  Tomorrow will suck- she has to work and I need to get a few more food items at the store.   Monday will be a relief.  COME ON Monday!

Hope you're all doing as well as possible.  We're all in this together.

Thoughts_Arrive

It's great that we have a clinical psychologist contributing in this thread

what dreams

Thoughts_Arrive said:

It's great that we have a clinical psychologist contributing in this thread

This is "A Safe Place for Anxiety Sufferers to Share." I'm not going to be baited into an argument with you and blow up the thread. I am going to respond once, however, and then put you on ignore so I can continue to be part of this thread without being poked by you every time I comment. Here is the FULL text of the PM you sent me that apparently you are still angry about:

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Thoughts_Arrive January 25

I'd like to apologise and also say thank you for your honesty. I hope you read this and reply but if not, I understand.
May I ask what you've been diagnosed with? And what childhood trauma? Maybe we have similar stories.
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I did not reply. Clearly you do not understand. So let me make it clear in the honest way I have of communicating: I am not obligated to have private conversations with strangers about deeply personal subjects. I have shared details of my diagnosis here in this thread when appropriate to the conversation, in ways that I think could be helpful to others. The details of my childhood trauma are really none of your business -- but from it I have learned to trust my gut instincts and to not feel shamed or manipulated into doing things I don't want to do. 

If you are upset because I never acknowledged your apology, then here it is publicly: I accept your apology.  I'm not sure why you even felt the need to apologize. I offered some suggestions to some problems you were having, as did a number of people here. I made some observations about your self-reported behaviors and asked a question that I thought could be helpful to your treatment.  You, as you have the right to do, rejected all the suggestions, observations, and the question. I was neither offended nor harmed by that. But if you need forgiveness for something you perceived to be offensive on your part, then I offer it to you. I hope you find your closure and move on. I am sorry that my conversation with you hit such a soft spot.

To everyone else:  I am really, really sorry for going here in this thread. I was trying to be strong and let TA have his passive-aggressive moments but I'm not one to let attacks on my character go unanswered. I just couldn't today. It won't happen again from me. I promise -- if I can help it -- this thread will not turn into a shit-storm between me and TA.  Be well, everyone. We all deserve peace and calm in our lives right now. Do what you have to do to find it.

lastexitlondon

The world  has come undone. 
People including  me are losing whats left of their minds.

JPPJ84

lastexitlondon said:

The world  has come undone. 
People including  me are losing whats left of their minds.

Deep breaths, Rob. Take one day at a time. I know it’s hard to only see the bad news but look at how people come together to cope. Days like these bring out the worst in some people, yes. But also the best. 

You‘ll get through this

lastexitlondon

We are semi ill in isolation . Not knowing if its that or not. So much of it in my actual village. Thanks  for the kind words keep you  posted.!