Daily routine?

For good mental health it's quite important to have some kind of structure in the day especially if you are finding anxiety levels or depression is worse. It's important to know what the signs of depression are e.g lethargy, tiredness, sleeping too much or not enough, a long side the more known symptoms such as weepiness not eating/over eating. For me l 'work' in the mornings, sorting out bills, housework, sorting out cupboards etc. In the afternoon l go for a walk, catch up with friends and family by making phone calls, skype or zoom. Its important to vary your relaxation time eg. Listening to music, adult colouring, gardening, reading....whatever you find relaxing. I am classed as a keyworker so working 20 hours a week, which, for me is great. If anyone is struggling with their mental health G.P surgeries are still open albeit by phone. Talking therapies are still taking referrals and again sessions are on the phone or skype sessions, but please don't struggle if depression and/or depression is ongoing. This situation won't go on forever

We don't have a daily routine as such. We shop just once a week though. We tend to structure our days according to the weather, we both like gardening, OH likes tinkering in his workshop and I like crafting.

As for housework, bed is stripped weekly, towels changed rather more often than before due to increased hand washing.

I would much rather be outside in the garden than polishing the broomhandles!

As long as surfaces are disinfected, door handles wiped daily, bathroom and toilet clean, kitchen clean why worry about the rest? If the sun is shining I'm outside, good for my physical and mental health, the dust will be on the tv tomorrow! ?

Sorry last bit should have said depression and/or anxiety is ongoing

I think being a teacher for nearly 40 years has made me need a routine. So I'm up and out with the dog at 7 and then back to do a walking workout as I am used to doing more than the 3 miles I'm doing now. Next it's breakfast and shower time followed by a bit of browsing on the internet and a coffee. Then I spend the rest of the morning on routine housework and making soup for lunch.
In the afternoon I bake (another reason for the walking workouts) and prepare dinner along with jobs that have needed doing for ages - e.g sorting drawers out and a bit of pampering as I can't get out for my brow tint and pedicure. After dinner, I watch some TV and get on with my knitting. Just to add, I have loved watching the Circque du Soleil shows that are being streamed. At various points in the day we talk to the three sets of GCs and their parents via WhatsApp.

It is sunny where I live so I have put the frame for my hammock in the garden. Each day at 3 pm I go out to it with my hammock and my relaxation CD. Set it up and lie in it in the sun listening to the sounds of nature, the CD and enjoying the peace and quiet for just over the hour. then it time to get up and devise a dish for supper. Get veg and fruit delivered in a box fortnightly. First click and collect at Morrisons on Sunday. A local firm who were delivering to restaurants will deliver flour, yeast, fruit, veg and toilet paper. And of course if i need them majestic will deliver wine!! I read an electronic news paper each morning and have hobbies to do however chasing deliveries and inventing menus with what comes seems to take up too much of my time. I have failed to be able to edit my basket!!

Cereal.
Walk dogs on beach early for an hour
Feed dogs and cats
Breakfast
Bath. Dress in clean clothes!
Collapse in a heap
Internet
Crochet
TV on, more crochet/family history
Lots of cups of tea interspersed
Random meals as appropriate

There was a Dr on Radio Wales yesterday afternoon. He stressed in these unprecedented time how important it was to have a routine not to lounge about in bed all morning- up, showered, dressed, breakfast etc. Try to eat healthily, take your hours exercise. He did mention not to spend a lot of time listening to the news about the virus, Sitting around was not good. Most important was to talk to someone. Chat to your neighbour over the fence, give someone a call. If there are people who live on there own and are feeling low they should call a helpline that has been set up called CALL. The Samaritans are there to listen and not just for people who are suicidal. If you are able give someone a knock that you may not have seen for a few days ( remembering your social distancing!)

Mine is easy get up have a quick tidy round from where DH (he is very poorly) is up in the night then start work. Finish at 5pm sort out something to eat watch tv or read, message my children go to bed.

I don't have a structure...I am the most disorganised person I know. There are only two things I have to do weekly...one is empty the toilet cassette and the other is fill the water tank. I live on a boat so these two are a must and have been for nearly three years. Anything else I do when I like Spending too much time sewing at the moment...

PS. I meant to say that my home help keeps her distance and only does those tasks that I cannot do. She also comes because of my age, to see if I am still OK.

Today I’ve looked at Facebook waiting for porridge to cook then walking to post 2 food parcels for relatives. Seeing a few people I know so stop to chat across road.
Coffee 11am and speak on phone with someone in family.Then look at greenhouse and water plants and pick stuff to make soup, I’m really into foraging so I like to get some fresh tasty greens plus herbs.

Afternoon is a bit of work if I have some then family FaceTime at 4 ish some sewing or work. Cook something and wine ?at 7 ish and eat around 8 then watch either something on iPlayer or we like Walter Presents on C4. News night then bed!
I’d love to have a dog and really missing animals as I’m usually Pet Sitting at this time of year. I have to make do with Hedgehogs and wild birds which I have interesting conversations with.

Absolutely no routine whatsoever. Get up whenever, eat whenever and do whatever I want when I want, subject only to the vagaries of the English weather and the constraints of lockdown.

We tend to be fairly idle in the mornings. Watch news. Read. Check emails etc. Then lunch. Few household chores. Watch countdown. Do stuff in garden. Out for walk. Watch pointless. Tea.

I only plan a week ahead and change it every week. I add cleaning windows monthly and doing gardening jobs too. I ensure that afternoons are left for hobbies and catch up with friends on phone and WhatsApp. I knit and sew. First thing every morning a daily walk along the river, canal or meadows for 30 mins and daily 30 mins workout. I tick off as I do each thing. Dont get into habit of doing same thing every day as it gets boring and becomes task orientated. Having a day off should happen and just move things one day forward. Good luck. Xx

Usually up 6.30 .coffee..news?...shower.. dog walk..jobs..tv with lunch...big jobs if there are any....if not jigsaws.. reading...pottering...shopping on shopping day. Dinner ..tv...bed by 10.30pm. I can't beleive how fast the days go....always something to do even if it's cleaning things that have never been cleaned...lovely weather for drying too.

Up about 7.30 make a coffee and go back to bed to read, check news/ emails etc
9 am workout with Joe Wicks then breakfast, shower. Prepare meal for the day and do jobs which need doing.
Order anything online that I might require.
Lunch at 1.30 ish
Go to allotment, do the garden, read, listen to the afternoon play, all weather related.
5 pm Play a vinyl record from the past
Write letters/ cards/ diary
Watch the 6pm news with a glass of something
Prepare dinner and eat about 7.30.
Choir sings every day at different times so join in as and when I want. Email friends, speak at least once a week to them plus twice a week to daughter who is alone as a key worker in Nottingham.
Watch tv about 9pm and bed before 11pm.
The days just go.

What's the point in having a routine? This is a perfect chance to do what you like,when you like isn't it?? No stresses (apart from the worry about covid19!) But so long as we are doing the chores we need to it doesn't matter a jot when they are done,we have nowhere to rush off to- even those who go out for exercise can go when they like- but for once,we've no appts to keep,nothing to rush off to.nowhere to go..Learn to take things as they come ladies.it might help you feel calmer,help some blood pressures..(ive still 2 youngest 'boys' at home,21& other one is 17 this wkend,)& so long as theyre fed& watered,i can do pretty much else whenever i like.its the only good thing to come out of this thing.

Maybe the only ones who need a bit of structure are the ones who are still working,but from home now?

I'm fortunate to have a DH although our children and grandchild live in Scotland 400 miles away. so we Skype, WhatsApp and Zoom anyway.
Up around 0800 when I can't stand any more of the Today programme!
Breakfast and catching up with reading while music ( instead of R4) plays to get us in a positive frame of mind.
DH is then out in the garden - and the garden is in shock with all the attention!
I catch up with emails and plan - I'm supporting university students on line- they've found it really hard transitioning from being independent in the buzz of the city to being at home with parents and siblings, often in the country so they need emotional support as well as academic to help them into a routine- which in turn helps me to feel useful.
I try to do Pilates and a Joe Wicks ( Seniors or HIIT) routine each day . We may go out for a walk too. We're getting food delivered but go out for a paper and prescriptions. We've been ordering for our elderly neighbours and sharing with them until they can get a delivery slot of their own.

We're sharing our DD's Netflix account and catching up with The Crown- even DH is finding it engaging. We sit with our phones checking out the events to see what's true and what's not.
I do cleaning when I feel it needs it. Spouse does more than his share . He's in charge of washing- me ironing. I'm doing more baking and cooking meals than before.
I've been catching up with neglected old friends.
What I'd hoped I would do is more Art work but it's still down the list of priorities.
All in all it's going fine but we worry most about our DD who works in a care home and only got ppe today because a nurse there went around the system and phoned a supplier direct. The manager said they would get it when there was an outbreak!!!Now the manager is making it sound like it was her idea to get it!!More than that her superior wants the home to share it with other homes in the group !!! The GP responsible for the home is disgusted by the management's attitude.

I am disabled, so don't have a walking or exercise routine, but am spending more and more time sitting at the computer - putting on weight!
Shower and dress, though the alarm is still set for 8:30 - not sure why;
Breakfast, and other half copes by insisting we have a discussion about what we are NOT doing with the day:
Not going to Caulk Abbey this morning; not taking a picnic lunch to the River Dove...etc;
Daily suduco challenge, followed by online competition entering;
clear the e-mails before phoning several friends who live alone;
gardening before lunch; crafts or book writing in the afternoon - Terry Pratchett said writing books was the best fun you could have by yourself - who am I to argue?
Get dinner, then TV, then bed! - Another day gone!

That sounds like my kind of lockdown EmilyHarburn!

I agree with you Nannan. My life isn't that much different from "normal". I miss going to yoga and Zumba, but the yoga teacher has set up online sessions. I communicate with friends and family online. Organising medications has been more irritating than it should have been, but I've got that sorted. I haven't been outside my house and garden for a month or seen anybody in person face to face. I've had to change my business to online, but that's beginning to work out. Somehow or other, I still don't have the time to do all the things I want to do, but don't think I've ever felt less stressed in my life

We have a weekly timetable, which includes exercising Monday-Friday (different types) and taking a half hour "walk" up and down the garden. Unlike Captain Moore, we didn't think of monetising it for the NHS.

Bijou,be careful about the home help,ive not had my cleaning lady in since this started,and my housing association just rang(to check can get shopping etc)& she said id done right thing,as the less people coming in your home the better,plus if shes going to other homes too its a bigger risk..if she must come,make sure shes got appropriate PPE ,aprons& disposable shoe covers&gloves&masks&such like..

We both get up when one of us wakes, turn the coffee on and watch Breakfast until we are sick of it, then breakfast whoever feels like making it. When we are ready, we shout to google to put on some disco music, (I know it's funny) and we do exercises or march around until we've done the required number of steps in time to the music. Next it's shower and get ready. I potter in the house, contact friends and family, and husband does active jobs outside.
After lunch we go for a walk on the prom and come home tired enough to need a cup of tea or something stronger.
Make evening meal, and watch something if there is anything worthwhile to watch, play 'words with friends' while listening to Classic FM with a dram if it gets late.

Interesting variations. I can't understand the housework routine either. I worked full time as a teacher through my middle years and arrived home at varying times absolutely exhausted.. No cleaning and so forth in the evenings. I was too tired and always under the cosh of endless marking. Now 82, I can't walk more than a few hundred yards either. Walking used to be one of my chief pleasures, as was driving long distances before roads became terrifying. That's gone as well. Instead of faffing about dusting and changing the bed linen every week, spend time reading while your brain still works. This includes reading lots of stuff online as you pursue interests across the internet. Care for any pets you have and talk to them. Dogs and cats enjoy this. Watch television selectively. Most of it is dross. I do have the luxury of living alone so can do exactly as I please indoors, which includes sleeping until almost until midday if I feel like it. I live in my head most of the time. This comes to a lot of us as we age, so be warned!