How is Covid-19/Coronavirus impacting your phobias and anxiety?

[Helprequired]

Lockdown is never easy at the best of times but with Covid-19 now rife across the world, how is this impacting your phobias and anxiety?

More importantly, have you found any exercises/techniques which help you cope with these stressful and difficult times?

 

[Fightingback]

I am thankful that I have my immediate family around me for comfort and company - I really dont know how those inisolation alone are coping. I take my hat off to them

I think the key for many people is to maintain some kind of routine with eating, sleeping and watching TV etc. Humans like routine, we depend on routine and while the days are long I find it does help. Also, make sure you get you 1hr a day exercise!

 

[LynnyB]

The simple answer is yes! As humans we are not used to being cooped up and not able to socialise. You need to stick to routines, give yourself time to exercise and your family should not be in the same room 24/7. You need freedom and independence!

 

[Mark]

At the start I thought this would only last a few weeks but now we have the UK PM in hospital, politicians dropping like flies and the death numbers going up and up. It is starting to get very frightening and I can feel my anxiety rising.

 

[Helprequired]

I think anyone who suffers from anxiety/phobias will be experiencing increased stress at the moment and many who were perhaps borderline will start to experience anxiety/phobias. I think a lot of people will come out of this pandemic with new phobias.

 

[Getting_There]

It is safe to say the virus has had an impact on me! Many people will struggle to simply "fall in" to the old routine when the lockdown is finally lifted. That is when it will hit people how the lockdown has changed them.

 

[Admin]

As I mentioned on another post, this is not natural for humans BUT personally I would rather be in lockdown 1 week too long than let out a week too early and we get a deadly second wave.

 

[Fightingback]

Persoanlly I find it difficult to cope with living in a house which is constantly full - I work from home as I am self-employed and enjoy my freedom when everyone else is at work lol Gives me and my dog time to watch the TV when I'm on a break lol

 

[LynnyB]

If you have an issue in the ongoing knockdown need to talk to your family/those living in your house let them know your anxieties before they build up. The danger is that they build up to such a level that arguments ensue and this takes what was a minimal problem to a whole different level. The main problems experienced during knockdown revolve around noncommunication as opposed to real problems. Talk, talk, talk and talk again.