...and its goodnight from me

Me too. Tired and no motivation.
Husband too. Hes wfh and putting in long hours although he no longer has the almost 2 hr journey each way on top - but I think he misses his nap on the train as he keeps falling asleep on the sofa!!

I'm tired all the bloody time ?. I'm not sleeping well at night, worse than usual, despite sleeping tablets which I'm using every other night.
I'm finding myself asleep in the afternoon. The odd day I don't nap I'm exhausted and still not sleeping at night!!
My mental health is suffering. I'm not watching any news but get the odd headline online. I don't have a garden, I'm not allowed to decorate even if I had the energy. Just bloody miserable. Sorry folks ?

Cause of lockdown, and chronic anxiety

I toss and turn because I don't sleep proper causr

I hate to say this but I'm having the opposite experience.
I desperately miss my family but before lockdown was absolutely shattered and I now feel well rested and have more energy. Can't really understand it!

I sleep badly. Wake up to go to the loo 2 or 3 times. Then start reading for hours on end. Around 4 PM I'm hit with such tiredness I have to lie down for half an hour. Both DH and I find we're sitting around in the mornings looking at screens before getting showered quite late. Motivation has gone. We're not depressed, just bored.

I feel tired,and feel as if I just can't be bothered.Normally I feel motivated and energetic by keeping busy,having a routine,going out somewhere nice on my spare days if I want to,now every day's the same.

I started out all full of things to do and I did do some of them, but lots of them remain unfinished and I occasionally pick up a piece of sewing or do a drawing, but I'm nowhere near as motivated as I was when this started. I do have days when I tackle cleaning or gardening but the gaps between those are getting wider and the lazy days are increasing. I do excersises with Zoom and go for walks, but only to stop me seizing up completely. I've always slept well but now can read happily in bed until very late.

I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I feel tired all the time, despite sleeping well. Just getting a bit depressed as summer visits from family have been cancelled, and I'm wondering whether they'll even make it for Christmas. I'm not sure I want them to get on a plane again, but that's the only way.

I have always lived one day at a time - I rarely plan for the future. Planning holidays etc is quite an effort - I am always pleased when I do, however.

This helped when I was diagnosed with cancer 18 months ago and is helping now in lock down.
I am grateful for what each day brings.

I am never bored and do not need others to provide entertainment. I am permanently busy although I must admit I will miss my granddog when he finally goes home as he gives some structure to our lives. However, I am not looking ahead which is probably fortunate as I suspect after this 12 weeks of shielding I will have to shield for another 12.

In some ways I am lucky as I do not have the stress of booking food deliveries or prescription deliveries as they have been really easy.

Oh BlueBelle you made me feel a lot better. So I am not the only one feeling like this. A friend of mine tells me I am just being silly but that doesnt help at 4 in the morning does it. At least there are two of us.

handbaghoarder, Oh you do have my sympathy for restless legs. I have suffered for years with them.

Yes I felt the same.At first all enthusiastic at the allotment cleaning decluttering .Now just seemed to have lost all motivation everything an effort.Can’t be bothered to do anything anymore which is worrying which then makes me feel guilty- no excuse- like a vicious cycle. Time doesn’t mean anything .So used to being out and about socialising with family and friends thank goodness for face time.I feel for those who are shielded and tell myself I have a lot to be thankful for .Just sick of dusting !!
Just can’t wait for release.Now allowed out more than once visited garden centre then chatted to my Mum long distance in her garden almost felt normal again yesterday whatever that is I ve forgotten ! Meeting a friend for a long distance walk today then DD1 next weekend.Yay !Please please no spike I ll be good promise Boris I ll try not to go too mad!
Stay safe all grans we ll be over this one day.Take care .

I've posted this before but the real benefit of lockdown for me has been sleeping soundly every single night without fail (touch wood). Have had real problems getting to sleep for years now and often up in the early hours watching TV and then go back to bed around 5am ish. Used to get one good night maybe every 3-4 days but not now - bliss.

Farview
We are out of our usual routine since lock down.I often
feel like hibernating 'wake me when its over'ZZZZZ

I promised myself that I would get on with all the jobs that I wanted to do, like decluttering the kitchen, a spare room, clothes etc. I went to tackle the spare bedroom but caught site of a load of photographs so spent the rest of the day sorting through them which I enjoyed. Well would you believe I made the mistake of going onto the Amazon site and ordered scrap books, stencils, and other bits. So now you can guess what I have been doing since. All the above never got done and still hasn’t. I now feel guilty and feel I have wasted a lot of time but I just cannot be bothered.

sillynanny I could have written your post I volunteered three and a half days a week plus I organised meet ups coffee or lunches with friends and was always busy I too live alone I am luckier than you as I have one daughter nearby who is wonderful and calls me at least twice a day and comes to talk at my gate when she’s not working
I do go out for walks alone but that’s no fun I ve got an allotment but the back tells me not to go everyday
Eyes won’t let me read much and it’s just the long long hours inbetween, my motivation has gone, my reason for getting up
It all seems banal and pointless and all this for what countries that didn’t lock down at all seem much better of than us

Could it be tiredness that you have ignored during your busy life? I distinctly remember being dreadful tired for at least a fortnight after the end of every summer term.

If not, I would imagine you are bored. Boredom often makes us feel tired.

Living alone I used to Volunteer 3 times a week, see Family & friends regularly, enjoy walks by the sea, read for hours
on end. Now I am bored. No Volunteering, no family & friends, no walks apart from 10 mins down the road, amd & cataracts needing doing make reading difficult. TV boring full of the virus. Can now sleep for England until 3-4 am when wake for the loo & cant sleep again until the alarm goes then sleep for England again. So lonely now never knew loneliness till now. Phone calls do not help as they just emphasise the loneliness as they all have partners & friends in the street. No one here even bothers with other people only their own lives.

So glad I’m not the only one who feels like this .....

Guilty as charged. Tired all the time. Always been a poor sleeper, and compounded by Restless Legs its a disaster. Weighed myself this morning too ???. Oh dear. Need to address this. After coffee ....

I think we all have some kind of routine. And often wished we had a day off. But looking after one of more of the grandchildren for the last sixteen years then suddenly have this taken off you because of the lockdown. Also loosing my husband in the last three years and loosing the chat from my mum due to her dementia.. Things get pretty boring there is only so much cleaning and gardening one can do.. But surprising how tired u become doing nothing..

I think when our minds and bodies are used to being busy all of the time it is quite a shock to the system when we are able to slow down and take life a little easier. I used to drive to and from London every day for over 20 years, and then got a job much nearer to home - in fact a 5 minute drive. It took me several months before I was able to get ready for work slowly and in better humour than I had before.

We just have to take time to adjust to the many changes that are going on at the moment. I hope the pace of life will pick up, but that it will be a lot slower than before, giving us time for ourselves and our loved ones, instead of just fitting them in.

boredom and feeling trapped the main reason.I practise Qi Gong it raises energy levels,its been practiced for thousands of years,other exercises also useful.Keeps me flexible .keeps the blues away generally.

Reasonably busy but nothing like usual. Now with being able to go out more than once a day for a walk that makes me feel better though the routes I can use are becoming boring. Never in bed before midnight and I usually read for an hour before settling down and if I am lucky I sleep until about 6 am then that's me awake. Read again or try to get back to sleep but usually up just after 7 am for a slow start to the day. Yes the garden is looking great, almost watching the grass growing ready to cut it again. I don't seem to feel tired inspite of not doing so much.