Emotional? ????

[flowers} for everyone. We all feel the same. I am clinging on to the saying "This too will pass". Captain Tom said that too.

My condolences paddyanne - so sorry.

A sad time for you, paddyanne

I'll have the tissues handy watching Gardeners' World tonight. Gardening is keeping me sane and it's somewhere I can give in to emotion because DH hates seeing me upset.

Monty's calming voice and optimism lift my spirits especially now he has a new little dog to delight us as well as Nigel and Nellie.

So, why do I cry at the end of each programme?

I was brought up to be stoic, stiff upper lip and all that, but since becoming widowed almost ten years ago my emotions are closer to the edge and I don't mind if I'm seen with tears in my eyes - it's what makes us human, after all.

This is a crisis we're coping with and an emotional moment is perfectly all right, we must just remember to pick ourselves up afterwards and face the world afresh.

I thought it was just me, hugs to you all ?

I think we're all more emotional more at the moment because we can't block them out with our previous 'busy-ness'.

I have always been emotional at this sort of thing
brass bands, marching,,, flypast! Capt.Tom and everything

so nothing new here for me...

Oh I’m a cryer anyway happy or sad occasions so are my DDs so at the moment there is something daily to cry at.

Yes I think everyone is feeling this way. I have a group of friends who we are keeping in touch with each other via WhatsApp - we keep a conversation going throughout most of each day. Some already have mental health issues, and the rest of us are also revealing depression, anxiety, sleeping problems which we weren't before. One of our group has knowledge of psychological subjects and says that basically the whole nation is suffering from a form of PTSD, which is having an adverse effect on our mental wellbeing. Yesterday some of our group were so low that some of us phoned them, as hearing a human voice is better than a WhatsApp, albeit shorter. The ones struggling more were those living alone, or in the shielded category so unable to even go out briefly.

Thanks for posting this Maw, I'm also feeling very emotional and glad to hear it's not just me. I was in tears watching the fly past on Colonel Tom Moore's birthday and seeing him wave to the pilots. I dread hearing of people dying of this virus all alone and the despair of families not being able to be with their dying loved ones. It's just too cruel not to be able hug, kiss your loved ones xx

Me too ! I was low before the lockdown, as I was coming to terms with a friends suicide, I’d known him for 20 years .... then another close friend of 49 years, was killed in a hit and run .... so I was struggling. Then this enforced lockdown and not being able to see my 2 sons and 4 other grandchildren has been tough. I’m so lucky living in my DD granny annexe so I have her and her husband plus one grandson to be with everyday .... but still the slightest thing will bring tears. I’ve always been a cry baby, so my family are all used to it now !

No, you’re not the only one Maw! Definitely more weepy. Not much has moved me to tears last few years, but seeing two nurses looking up at the rainbow last Thursday had me weep, knowing some pilots from Biggin Hill were trying to do a fly past for Colonel Tom got me weeping, people on Twitter talking about parents dying, American Spanish death rates had me weeping ! So I’m in your boat !

I've been really good but week five really got to me and I've had the tissues out. I think being isolated from family and friends doesn't help.

Yes Chickkygran seeing the Spitfire and Hurricane planes fly over for Colonel Tom did it for me and even for dh. There is so much darkness. Every point of light - Colonel Tom, all NHS staff, care home staff, the forgotten community care workers, all kindnesses bring a tear to the eye. So much to be proud of and take heart from in amongst the sadness.

I do ok with the happy face when catching up for a chat with family but after the goodbyes I just feel overwhelmed with sadness and the tears flow.
When I hear of more deaths on the news, I cry for these people and their families but also, three members of our family who have to cope with this at high risk on the front line. I then become more upset when I think of those who break the guidelines thinking of no one but themselves. It makes me so angry.

When it all becomes too much, I go into the garden and concentrated on what I need to do out there, look at what is coming into bloom all helps to lift my spirits.

I can't do the Thursday night clap as I end up a crying mess on the drive. One nabb

Things make me happier as well...things I might not have reacted to before bring a smile. I actually think all our emotions ate heightened at the moment. You are not alone in this.

MawB , you are not the only one.
I didn`t realise until i read your thread that i too have become more emotional.
Thank you,i now realise it`s all that`s going on in the world not just in our country it breaks my heart to hear of so many families couldn`t be with those poor souls who died alone and the families who couldn`t be at the funeral services.
Also iv`e noticed many many people are being kinder and more tolerable to each other.
I would like to think that doesn`t change.
I send BIG hugs to you ALL.
Please stay safe and remember theirs no shame in tears.

I find I am getting weepy over odd things. A friend sent me a lovely attachment today with lovely pictures of baby animals- gorgeous views etc & I found myself crying!
Any old thing on TV that is even slightly sad sets me off.
I am not at all worried about things in general & getting out & about quite happily.
Don't even think of mentioning DGC!!! I am due a Zoom call with them soon.

Ended up a sobbing heap after the most mild of upsets with OH, he was so upset himself we soon sorted it out. Not me at all! Yes the Spitfire got to me too. An upside has been talking to the AC and GC more which is lovely, although even there I feel I have to be upbeat as they are of course having down days themselves.

I love Gardeners World and for a hour you can escape into his beautiful garden at Longmedow .I missed what his new dog was called.I was also upset as this was the programme i shared with my mother in law who died in January

I don't think this is specifically caused by the lockdown. Any emotional situation tends to set me off these days and the tendency has grown since I was 50.

I don't know whether this is a side effect of the menopause, merely part of growing old, or due somehow to the fact that my parents aren't alive any longer, as it sort of started during my mother's last illness.

I was surprised to realise when my father was more or less the age I am now that Remembrance Day would bring tears to his eyes, which it never had done before.

I'm finding I get emotional,for example when a poem was read out on BBC breakfast, about dying Then oddly some good news stories also bring tears to my eyes

One night in the week I woke up crying and just cried for hours until the morning. I cry if I speak to my DH about the GC. I have tears on my eyes now. What a time we are living through.

We watched a programme about The Shadows on BBC4 last night. DH has always been a fan.

I was surprised to see how much it upset him.