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Dealing with COVID-19

What effect is the pandemic having on your mental health?

  • It is making it easier

    Votes: 16 24.6%

  • It is making it harder

    Votes: 49 75.4%
  • Total voters
    65
I am sorry you are having a tough time. You can do this. Think of the other tough stuff you have done this year. A few days more of isolation is nothing!
Giving in now would be like quiting a race when you can see the finish line yes? It sucks but you can do it. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. :)
 
Quarantine does not mean you can't go outside for a walk and get some fresh air and sunshine. If you have to wear a mask going in and out of the building to protect others, fine.
 
I agree with getting some workouts in. They’ll make you feel better and increase your enjoyment of those enchiladas.

(“Just a few more days of quarantine. I will celebrate its end by eating enchiladas.”)
 
I got my booster two days ago. I was hoping that because it was a booster the side effects wouldn't be as bad as the vaccine I got in the summer. Wrong. I was up all night feeling like I was dying of the plague. And thanks to the omicron variant, the 150 more variants I know we're going to have and the idiot horrible sub-human anti vax truck drivers that have invaded our Canadian border I can't help but feel that this was all just a waste of time.
I'm going to die in two years anyway (according to some website that "predicted" my death, anyway) so whatever.

Screw the human race, screw its unbearable stupidity, ignorance, denial, and insanity that led to all of this and has sealed our doom. Sometimes it's so bad I just want to scream and grab a random sharp object and stab my arms or cut my wrists. But all I can do is make some "hesitation wounds" that aren't even really wounds, just scratches. But what's really strange is that I keep thinking what a mess it will make and how hard it will be to clean up all the blood.
 
I love the staying home part, and that now you can pick up or have delivered groceries. But I'm so confused over the constantly changing guidelines that I give up. But irritated over what my kids are having to deal with with school kids.

One daughter has their school, if 1 person in the household has covid the kids have to quarantine for 24 days. Doesn't matter if they are negative. It's quarantine 14 days after last day of exposure, which they consider the 10th day of the person sick. My other daughter they can go back after 5 days (without retesting) if they are positive, but if negative have to be out 10 days. So the well kids are having to miss more school than the sick kids. It's a sad day when you find yourself saying "yay, glad to hear the siblings are also sick so they can return to school." My daughter dealing with the 24 days is about to lose her job - she has 5 kids that are not getting sick at the same time.

And it's sad that one of the first things I ask is if the person was vaccinated. Not vaccinated and it's no more than cold symptoms? Completely vaccinated and boosted and died? I just don't trust any of it any more.
 
GrownupGirl said:
I got my booster two days ago. I was hoping that because it was a booster the side effects wouldn't be as bad as the vaccine I got in the summer. Wrong. I was up all night feeling like I was dying of the plague. And thanks to the omicron variant, the 150 more variants I know we're going to have and the idiot horrible sub-human anti vax truck drivers that have invaded our Canadian border I can't help but feel that this was all just a waste of time.
I'm going to die in two years anyway (according to some website that "predicted" my death, anyway) so whatever.

Screw the human race, screw its unbearable stupidity, ignorance, denial, and insanity that led to all of this and has sealed our doom. Sometimes it's so bad I just want to scream and grab a random sharp object and stab my arms or cut my wrists. But all I can do is make some "hesitation wounds" that aren't even really wounds, just scratches. But what's really strange is that I keep thinking what a mess it will make and how hard it will be to clean up all the blood.
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Hang in there GrownupGirl. I don't think anyone knows what they're doing. Just do your thing. Yes, it's basically turned into just another flu with different variants. It's not going anywhere. So don't let it turn unbearable for you.
 
GrownupGirl said:
I got my booster two days ago. I was hoping that because it was a booster the side effects wouldn't be as bad as the vaccine I got in the summer. Wrong. I was up all night feeling like I was dying of the plague. And thanks to the omicron variant, the 150 more variants I know we're going to have and the idiot horrible sub-human anti vax truck drivers that have invaded our Canadian border I can't help but feel that this was all just a waste of time.
I'm going to die in two years anyway (according to some website that "predicted" my death, anyway) so whatever.

Screw the human race, screw its unbearable stupidity, ignorance, denial, and insanity that led to all of this and has sealed our doom. Sometimes it's so bad I just want to scream and grab a random sharp object and stab my arms or cut my wrists. But all I can do is make some "hesitation wounds" that aren't even really wounds, just scratches. But what's really strange is that I keep thinking what a mess it will make and how hard it will be to clean up all the blood.
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It's good to vent about things like this. If it helps, lay blame where blame is due.

Picture the following scenario:

You're living in a neighborhood. One of your neighbors with some of their friends is purposely messing around with dangerous and even deadly poisons. Why? The person and their friends are likely certifiable psychopaths. The poisons get out or are released and poison the entire neighborhood forever. All will be sickened by the poison by varying degrees and a significant number of residents will be hospitalized or die from it. <<< If this happened in the "real world", which of the following would actually happen as a reaction/result?

1) The neighbor and their friends would be arrested and held accountable for the crimes committed. The neighbor and his friends would be blamed (considered at fault) for the crimes and there would be no discouragement against anyone affected denouncing the crime.

or

2) The neighborhood at large while freely discussing the poison, sickness and death, would be completely silent about the origin or the people responsible. If any neighbor took umbrage at the perpetrators and demanded accountability, the other neighbors would scold, shame or try to silence them. The neighborhood would not seek justice against the perpetrators and instead pretend that there was no responsibility of any kind on their part.

In real life, which would happen, 1 or 2? We all know the answer because it doesn't even have to be asked.

I write this because sometimes with venting it can help to focus frustration on accountability. Is China accountable to some degree for this permanently damaging alteration to humanity? Thinking about that may allow you to vent in a more cathartic way.
 
Metalhead said:
I feel like staying in bed and crying my eyes out. This isolation is too much for me. Just a couple more days of it left, but can what is left of my sanity last that long?

I feel no reason to leave my bed now. This is pretty much textbook depression sinking in big time.
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So true. I have nothing to do so I been getting up at 3:30-4:30PM almost every day. Its too cold to go out.

Because of Covid and its restrictions going on 2 years now I am taking 6 medications at nearly maxed out dosages. I have an big bag of pills I am taking. Before Covid ruined any chance of a relationship I was only taking 2 medications at low dosage.

I also gained over 40 pounds the past 6 months. Before Covid I was losing weight.
 
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I'm just getting tired of virtual events, that's all I'm going say...

My work schedule would have allowed me to attend local Groundhog Day celebrations, instead, you know it, Virtual - Facebook Live :(

At least there is a live - in person - automotive swap meet happening in a couple of weeks, it's a 1.5 hour drive south of town but I plan to go, unless it also gets cancelled... :rolleyes:
 
I unfortunately must live in a home with multiple family members, I only not use an N95 when in my room, door closed, all windows opened. I have as limited contact with them as I possibly can hoping to avoid the virus (I don't specially like any of them either, but that's not relevant).

Last night an elderly family member was feeling unwell and nervous and so I volunteered to sleep in her same room in case something happened and she needed assistance. And let me tell you sleeping with an N95 one wasn't fun at all, they do their job but when we're talking 10+ hours of constant wearing and trying to sleep with some level of restricted respiration, it wasn't fun. I do hope I didn't remove while half sleep it at any point during my pathetic attempts at resting. I can only imagine the plight of health workers wearing full PPE during exhausting work for longs shifts.

It would have been hard to imagine being in such a situation where its a risk just being in the same room as a family member just 25 months ago, now its all just part of life with no clear end in sight. Funny how the world works.
 
You just have to stick it out, hopefully you do not have the the genetic predisposition to get it. If you do and are vaccinated you you will most likely just get sick a bit. Other wise it is now very hard to avoid.
I'm still expecting it to become endemic in around April.
 
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Is it true that covid survivor's brains and lungs age prematurely by about ten years and that they'll get dementia or Alzheimer's much sooner? Does being vaccinated make any difference?
 
GrownupGirl said:
Is it true that covid survivor's brains and lungs age prematurely by about ten years and that they'll get dementia or Alzheimer's much sooner? Does being vaccinated make any difference?
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I don't think there's been enough time or studies done to conclusively say what the long terms effects of Covid might/might not be, or whether being infected after vaccination would affect long term results at all. We're probably not going to have any of these answers for years.
It's just the nature of something new like this.
 
Country announced today that we are easing almost all restrictions. No mask wearing is required except at own discretion and wearing in medical places and taking transport. Not sure how to feel about this because I quite like wearing the mask. I can’t really read subtle facial expressions, so I noticed that most people around me started to actually be more direct in speech since wearing the masks. I also mutter to myself, so having a mask on kind of masks it and makes it less obvious.

however, I’m super happy that we’re doing away with the Covid certificates to get into places. It was insane that they had to be so specific, and I had all the vaccines up to date but it was annoying that if your phone ran Out and the certification was on there, then you can’t go in.


Yeah, it’s a change. I’m not sure how to really respond to it.
 
I hate masks. So much I am on 6 frigging medications to deal with it. I will be happy if when they go away in NYC.
 
This is hell. Please just let me never wake up again the next time I go to sleep.
If they make another vaccine or booster or whatever, I'm not taking it. I've had enough from being up all night feeling like I'm dying of the plague from the side effects. I know you can get covid anyway and still be really sick from it so it was all just a waste of time and the world is doomed anyway. Just end the world already please.
 
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