Covid Anxiety

[musicloveranthony]

Why? Just b/c I choose to live my life in a different way?

Because you're belittling someone for sharing their feelings. You know exactly what you're doing. Feigning ignorance is low - you've already proudly proclaimed it elsewhere. At least own it.

 

[Dancing Fire]

Because you're belittling someone for sharing their feelings. You know exactly what you're doing. Feigning ignorance is low - you've already proudly proclaimed it elsewhere. At least own it.

But you have no problem with hurting my feelings?

 

[musicloveranthony]

But you have no problem with hurting my feelings?

I have no problem telling you what you already know.

 

[Dancing Fire]

I have no problem telling you what you already know.

 

[prs]

My partner and I is planning for a get away. However, following the news, I got depressed seeing increase in COVID cases. Stricter borders and lockdowns were also implemented. I'm getting so stressed and seems this pandemic will still take long =( Different covid variants are appearing. This makes me panic, I'm even having emotional breakdown. Can someone please help me..

I wonder if it's planning the trip that is causing your emotional problems. Nobody knows how long the pandemic will last, or how serious it's going to get, or if a place with low covid rates now might be a hot spot when it's time to go.

In these circumstances it's just not possible to safely plan any kind of get away. Maybe best just to stop planning and wait until the future is much more certain.

 

[Diamond Girl 21]

I am beyond anxious because I don't just have covid to worry about. Most of my doctors originally agreed that because of various health issues, including autoimmune disease, medication and vaccine reactions, etc I shouldn't get vaccinated. Now, some of them are telling me to get vaccinated....quick. This is seriously emotionally draining. I had just decided to go with the J and J vaccine because it's more traditional and only one shot. Now I'm being told not to take that one because I have Von Willebrand's disease. I seriously don't know what to do.

 

[Arcadian]

My partner and I is planning for a get away. However, following the news, I got depressed seeing increase in COVID cases. Stricter borders and lockdowns were also implemented. I'm getting so stressed and seems this pandemic will still take long =( Different covid variants are appearing. This makes me panic, I'm even having emotional breakdown. Can someone please help me..

I contemplated what I was going to say because I don't want to scare or alarm you.

I'm vaccinated and got covid. Thankfully it amounted to what felt like a bad cold, but this is not unheard of among those who have been vaccinated. I'm not cleared yet because I don't have 2 negative tests yet but crossing fingers and toes, I'll get those next week. He didn't get covid and he's vaccinated.

Basically, what I'm saying is this; vaccines do work, they minimize symptoms for many of us by a large degree. Some won't get it, some will.

So with that, go. Enjoy yourself. Protect yourself however. get some sun, enjoy life because its the only one we have. As long as you do what you can to minimize your risk while also doing something good for your mental health, you'll be fine.

 

[Ellen]

You guys need to speak with me... Being fearful doesn't help anything. I been living a normal life since the pandemic.

Same. *high five*

 

[doberman]

I am beyond anxious because I don't just have covid to worry about. Most of my doctors originally agreed that because of various health issues, including autoimmune disease, medication and vaccine reactions, etc I shouldn't get vaccinated. Now, some of them are telling me to get vaccinated....quick. This is seriously emotionally draining. I had just decided to go with the J and J vaccine because it's more traditional and only one shot. Now I'm being told not to take that one because I have Von Willebrand's disease. I seriously don't know what to do.

Von Willebrand's? I've never met a person with this disorder, but I had one dog with it.

The problem is that all of this is occurring in real time. Studies are going on as we speak. As time progresses, medical pros learn more, and thus advice changes. Most of the advice these days leans toward getting the vax even in cases where pre-existing conditions are present. I'm sorry this pandemic has been so difficult for you.

 

[Dancing Fire]

Same. *high five*

Nice to see you Ellen! .

 

[Diamond Girl 21]

Von Willebrand's? I've never met a person with this disorder, but I had one dog with it.

The problem is that all of this is occurring in real time. Studies are going on as we speak. As time progresses, medical pros learn more, and thus advice changes. Most of the advice these days leans toward getting the vax even in cases where pre-existing conditions are present. I'm sorry this pandemic has been so difficult for you.

Thank you. It is a new diagnosis for me. It can rarely be acquired from lupus.

 

[Dancing Fire]

I’m not having a go at you @Dancing Fire, but you do realise, that feeling anxious about the situation isn’t helped when you as an individual do everything you can to stay safe, and other people just go about life as if there’s nothing going on?

I'd agree. One should do everything they feel to stay safe like staying at home.

 

[Ellen]

Nice to see you Ellen! .

You too DF. Glad to hear you're not listening to the fear mongering. Take care!

 

[737liz]

@Aerielle Max

I am going to address the trip aspect of your post. I am assuming you are vaccinated. As am I.

I just took a 3 week trip from Europe to the US and it was VERY stressful but also 100% worth it.

We experienced bureaucratic hurdles getting into the country, bedbugs upon arrival, barely breathable air quality due to fires, unbearable heat waves, unhonoured hotel reservations, family illness, late covid test results needed for flying, and cancelled flights. And despite all that, I LOVED OUR TRIP. IT WAS WONDERFUL!

We took every reasonable precaution and planned our trip to avoid exposure. We did a lot of outdoor activities that were away from crowds. The handful of times we ate inside felt a bit tense, but thankfully we didn't catch covid. Our tests before flying back proved negative. However if you have a way of bringing the rapid at home tests with you, this is something we wished we had. Every cough or throat tickle, I was convinced we had caught covid. Some rapid tests would have reassured me.

It was immensely restorative to get away. I hope you overcome your very valid anxiety and allow yourself a break. I didn't realise how much I needed a vacation until I was there, hiking in unfamiliar forest, breathing in salty ocean air, and really unwinding from a very tense 1.5 years of constant anxiety. I am anxious by nature. That anxiety didn't go away while on holiday, but it was nice to be anxious in new surroundings!

My one piece of advice is if this is planned for more than a few weeks in the future; don't bother checking restrictions, numbers, etc until 2 weeks before. Things change so rapidly keeping up with the new rules is pointless. I spent 9 months keeping up with US entry rules and regulations. All that stress for no reason.

I hope you are able to overcome your very valid concerns, and can have a nice vacation. I don't know if you are planning to do a big trip, but get away somewhere, anywhere, for the change of scenery. If that vacation has to be a driving vacation just a day away from home, renting an isolated cottage, that works too!

 

[Dancing Fire]

You too DF. Glad to hear you're not listening to the fear mongering. Take care!

Ellen, They are coming for your head now.

 

[Calliecake]

I'd agree. One should do everything they feel to stay safe like staying at home.

Why should the person who has been vaccinated and is masking have to stay home? They aren’t the ones who are putting others at risk of contacting Covid. The people who have no regard for others and are putting others at risk are the ones who should be staying home.

 

[nala]

@Dancing Fire if I recall correctly you had at least one incident of fear over the past year and a half bc I think your daughter had been exposed. You said so on this forum and people provided you with comfort. No one gloated bc you were at the time experiencing feelings of anxiousness or fear—the way you continually do on this forum to those who are anxious. Here’s the thing. You did change your lifestyle. You refrained from eating out until recently. I know bc I read your posts bc if you recall, I haven’t changed my lifestyle either. I tested the waters safely. I did my research. Bc you put your daughter’s financial well-being over your own risk, you chose to adapt and not live in fear. Same here. I am married to an essential and most of my loved ones are essentials so I didn’t have the luxury of giving into fear and anxiety or I would have driven myself mad. So you and I adapted. Luckily we had the capacity to. When your family had to work during the pandemic, you realized early on that masks and social distancing were enough to live a normal life and thankfully, the vaccine followed soon after. I was the first in line to get the vaccine. Bc not having to doubt Is priceless. So I say this to remind you that your gloating is in poor taste. We all have different circumstances that shape our perspectives. The one thing I’m sure of—you can’t convince people to get the vaccine just like you can’t convince people to stop being anxious about our new normal. But empathy goes a long way.

 

[Dancing Fire]

Why should the person who has been vaccinated and is masking have to stay home? They aren’t the ones who are putting others at risk of contacting Covid. The people who have no regard for others and are putting others at risk are the ones who should be staying home.

That's not true. The fully vaccinated can still be a super spreader.

 

[Dancing Fire]

@Dancing Fire if I recall correctly you had ag least one incident of fear over the past year and a half bc I think your daughter had been exposed. You said so on this forum and people provided you with comfort. No one gloated bc you were at the time experiencing feelings of anxiousness or fear—

Looking back... my DD#1 thinks she had Covid in Dec. 2019. She had a high fever so she went to the ER and she tested positive for influenza, but back then no one had heard of Covid so of course there were no test for Covid. To this day she think she contracted Covid in Dec. 2019. My #2 son in law and my 2 yrs. old grandson also had high fevers during the same period.

In RED...I think you have me mixed up with someone else.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

And you know why? b/c the media is saying that we will all die from Covid come this fall. People who are struggling with anxiety should just stay at home till this virus is gone.

I was feeling ok just board being home but now the PM is talking about alert level 3 and id be going back to work perhaps before the 2 weeks after Gary's 2nd shot i feel nevouse

The owner of my work has 10 kids and every doughnut or pie i sell is hopefully going to help put at least a couple of them through university i hope

what do people do who dont exist in the demographics that can afford therapy and all these other specialists i see mentioned on PS every day ?
I dont know anyone who has ever said they have been to therapy except a sad wee thing who had been the victim of incest and the state paid for some of it

they just keep going to work i guess

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

That's not true. The fully vaccinated can still be a super spreader.

Yes i beleave this is true and why they tell us to wear masks

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

Looking back... my DD#1 thinks she had Covid in Dec. 2019. She had a high fever so she went to the ER and she tested positive for influenza, but back then no one had heard of Covid so of course there were no test for Covid. To this day she think she contracted Covid in Dec. 2019. My #2 son in law and my 2 yrs. old grandson also had high fevers during the same period.

In RED...I think you have me mixed up with someone else.

Phew
glad they recovered
by sister and her family got the swine flu a few years back

 

[Aerielle Max]

Oh guys, thank you so much for your positive and warm advice and support. I am overwhelmed positively. This pandemic really brought us a lot of things.

Similar to what you have been sharing, I came across a report on Google that there is an assessment of new-onset depression and anxiety associated with COVID-19 - stating that females are more prone to mental health concerns compared to males.

Reading through it, I find myself related to such. Maybe it is one of the reasons why I am I feel this way.

Have you read about this too? Any thoughts?

 

[LilAlex]

This makes me panic, I'm even having emotional breakdown. Can someone please help me..

No need for panic. I am up to my elbows in it and do not see or feel panic.

I see and feel a lot of anger since so much of what we are experiencing now was utterly preventable. The willfully ignorant will probably never get the vaccine. But I have a lot of faith in RNA vaccine technology and I think we will be able to keep up with the variants emerging from their unvaccinated, unmasked "incubators."

There can be cognitive impairment post-COVID. So if you are an anti-vaxxer (i.e., cognitively marginal in the first place) and then you get COVID, you may become unemployable. That will have consequences for the whole country. But their friends will have a bake sale, raise $200, and call it good.

A minority have been fixing problems for the majority for a very long time. The armed forces are one example. So are our scientists, physicians and nurses, and public-health experts.

 

[Dancing Fire]

No need for panic. I am up to my elbows in it and do not see or feel panic.

So far that's the best advise you had given.

 

[Austina]

Why should the person who has been vaccinated and is masking have to stay home? They aren’t the ones who are putting others at risk of contacting Covid. The people who have no regard for others and are putting others at risk are the ones who should be staying home.

^ THIS Why should those of us who’ve done our part to help get this under control, to protect ourselves and others, now how to continue to be punished for those that refuse to do the same?

If you don’t want to be vaccinated, fine, but DO NOT continue to inflict YOUR choices on the rest of us. We’re trying to be part of the solution, not the problem.

YOUR choices are not just affecting you, we can’t tell by looking at someone if they’re vaccinated or not, so we have to continue to mask up, social distance and curtail our lives.

 

[missy]

I am beyond anxious because I don't just have covid to worry about. Most of my doctors originally agreed that because of various health issues, including autoimmune disease, medication and vaccine reactions, etc I shouldn't get vaccinated. Now, some of them are telling me to get vaccinated....quick. This is seriously emotionally draining. I had just decided to go with the J and J vaccine because it's more traditional and only one shot. Now I'm being told not to take that one because I have Von Willebrand's disease. I seriously don't know what to do.

I am sorry you have Von Willebrand's disease. My SIL has it and she is doing very well. She got vaccinated (Pfizer) in March 2021 and had no problems whatsoever. I know everyone is different but I wanted to share that with you and hope it makes you feel better about it. She was diagnosed decades ago and she is A OK. She has many other health issues and she is doing well.

 

[Asscherhalo_lover]

Looking back... my DD#1 thinks she had Covid in Dec. 2019. She had a high fever so she went to the ER and she tested positive for influenza, but back then no one had heard of Covid so of course there were no test for Covid. To this day she think she contracted Covid in Dec. 2019. My #2 son in law and my 2 yrs. old grandson also had high fevers during the same period.

In RED...I think you have me mixed up with someone else.

If she tested positive for the flu, she had the flu. Especially if they were all sick at about the same time. Flu onsets quickly (unlike COVID which has a delay). I brought home the flu (from school) January 9, 2020. By the next day it hit DH and our son. We are all vaccinated so fever lasted about 24-48 hours for each of us.

 

[autumngems]

I am so sorry you are going through this. I have struggled as well. I reached out to a psychiatrist this week because it was just more than I could bare on my own anymore.

Since my husband was sick in December, I have had terrible anxiety and panic attacks. Many things have happened in between, but I started feeling somewhat better. Than fast forward to about a month ago, my oldest daughters boyfriend, wh is not vaccinated tested positive. My daughter Abby is vaccinated but was the only one to not get C-19 back in December in our house. She tested negative twice but had all the symptoms. It threw me into a complete spiral mentally. They both recovered fine thankfully, but I couldn't get myself back together. I was having panic attacks daily. Woke in the middle of the night with horrible chest pain. Thankfully the doctor I spoke to was great and I am now taking some medication to help. I will be starting talk therapy in October. I have been diagnosed with PTSD.

Please reach out to your doctor for help if you need to. If you would like to talk offline, I am more than happy to help in any way I can.

Prayers for you, my child has it now and I know what you are going through, anxiety at a an all time high.

 

[autumngems]

I’m not having a go at you @Dancing Fire, but you do realise, that feeling anxious about the situation isn’t helped when you as an individual do everything you can to stay safe, and other people just go about life as if there’s nothing going on?

One of the big issues with Covid is that no one, not one single person, could definitively say that if they caught it, they’d be ok. People have recovered from it, but they’re not the same as they were before. New data is becoming available all the time, this has been a constantly evolving situation, things that are known now, weren’t known even a few short months ago.

I am not someone who ever had a flu jab, I did last year to appease my DH, but as soon as I was eligible to get the Covid vaccine, I did. Not just to protect myself, but to protect others, to stop new variants getting a hold.

We live in an area where it hasn’t been too bad, and there’s been a very high uptake of vaccination, even amongst young people, but we’re still very careful when we go out, we mask up inside, and will continue to do so.

I do think our media has been instrumental in spreading fear, but living with something that none of us has ever experience before, is frightening, hearing everyday how many people have died, how infections are rising, how there are no ICU beds available, is not something that people can just shrug off.

People react in different ways, some find it harder than others, how you deal with the situation doesn’t necessarily mean others can do the same.

@Aerielle Max I hope you find some way of helping you cope with your anxiety, most of us can sympathise with what you’re going through.

I agree, the media has everyone in a paniced state, that is why my daughter is having issues, she has it now and all we have heard is it will kill you. Yes I do understand it will kill some people, I am just saying that's all you hear these days and some people have anxiety and fear.