Do you ever feel this will never be over?

If I lived in Syria or Yemen, I would worry about the situation never ending. We know very well when this will end. It will end when there's a vaccination and that will be in 18 months or two years. What will happen in the intervening months depends on the government and how people comply with the spirit of rules/advice.

We were watching Rick Stein too and I was thinking that that was an area of France we've not visited, perhaps one day. But perhaps not now

I can't say I've had a frenzy of cleaning or clearing out either, although I have done more gardening because all that wet weather (remember that?) has brought flourishing weeds.

I think this could go on for a long time, at least until a safe vaccine is available.

But, like a pebble,e in a pool, the ripples will reach far and wide, not just the sickness but the consequences.

Sorry, that doesn't sound cheering, does it.
Like every generation, we have to deal with what is thrown at us.

I can't see the kids going back to school until September either, just in time for the norovirus.

It'll meet up with the other viruses at the end of summer in readiness for autumn/winter, so no, the end isn't nigh.

The truth is that this will never go away, like flu it will mutate and return over and over. We can hope for a vaccine that will allow us to live with this virus.

I forgot add ‘yes’ to frowning at the tv and even books. I’m reading a book about an older couple whose family move in with them. In my head I was going ‘No, no, you can’t do that until this emergency is over!’ The book is set in 2012.

Laibeck a friend feels a bit like you - she wishes she could have the virus so she could know she’d had it and start living a normal life again. She couldn’t, of course, because she has young children and elderly parents to protect but stress plays games with our minds.

It's like a black cloud over you, one that's going nowhere soon.

I too am judging social distancing on tv. It seems very decadent almost indecent when you think how we distance today.

Well, it WILL be over, although we don't know when. I've now got used to a quieter pace of life, and I'm not bothered by it any more. What will be will be. No point in getting stressed by it.

WWM2

I suppose they knew who they were fighting in the war. This is an invisible enemy, but just as deadly.

I feel all the time as if I’m dreaming. It is so surreal and nothing like I’ve ever experienced.

I wonder how our parents managed in the war. That lasted 5 years!

Yes, it will end, it will be over.

Things will be very different though, none of us know quite how that will pan out.

“It’s a long lane that has no turning”.

I'm not feeling well today. I started the day with a cough and chest pain and felt physically exhausted. I put it down to stripping paint and hay-fever. Now I have the headache from hell and feel sick. Could he anything, could be simple stress and exhaustion. Yet I am afraid. I've never felt afraid from simple illness before.

@Labaik - I've done that too !!

I was watching a West Wing DVD the other night, as a group of people walked through the West Wing I told my OH "Blimey they're all getting a bit close"

Were in the north east and behind London by two weeks this news has upset me even more and has filled me with dread. A new hospital nit far from me is being built it’s really so upsetting.

I’m sure it will end . I try telling myself that I’m lucky to have a loving family who are in touch frequently. Also the same with friends.
We don’t have any particular money worries, a nice house and garden , managing to get enough food and can go for a walk.
But Greymar, I feel the same as you, some days are very wobbly . I know many are worse off than we are but we all have to deal with what we have to deal with.

Sussexborn; a facebook chum said the other night he was watching an old film on tv and was thinking to himself 'they're all standing too close'....

It's tough greymar and when sleep patterns are all over the place, that makes things feel worse. Are you able to get out for a walk or bike ride at all?

I’m not sleeping properly either. I feel fine during the day (except for one particularly bad day of wobbles) but I’m having disturbed sleep and vivid dreams so I know I’m worried by it all. Still, I feel we’ve got it easy compared with other countries such as in Africa where they’re fighting plagues of locusts as well.

My sleep is all up the creek. Eating could easily go too, but I try to stick to meal times. Motivation is very poor.

I've got so many unfinished projects that I could be doing but just don't seem to be able to settle to any of them. The best I've accomplished today was cleaning the windows inside and out.

My Wobbliest moment was when the text appeared on my mobile. Quite ridiculous but I connected it with the Aldara treatment I used twice last year. It is a kind of immune therapy and my mind took a leap that it somehow made me more vulnerable and singled me out.

I also find I am watching tv that was recorded years ago and mentally judging the lack of social distancing! I fear I have already become institutionalised.

It's so difficult isn't it?
I have wobbly times, but hang onto the thought that 'this too shall pass'
My sleep pattern has altered, I miss my daughter, I miss my son,
I miss my grandchildren
I feel tired and I am not doing anything like as much as I usually do
It will end though Grey ?

Do you ever feel that this will never be over
No, not one bit, never. Maybe it might be different if we didn't have such lovely neighbours ( and low garden fences)
Every day and all through the day there's always at least 8 neighbours out in their gardens. We have lovely funny, informative conversations, shop for each other.
OH had to go into neighbours house a few days ago as she had a rat in her sitting room.
Before someone tells me I'm missing something: no I'm not. I'm fully aware of how serous this. My immediate neighbour is a nurse doing 12 hr days. I take precautions and I haven't been out of my Close for 3 weeks but I'm not worried.

Mmmm, food for thought folks. I did hear that the brain actually "likes" ticking things off a list. It fires up the reward pathways. Even if the things are mundane.