Lived Experience Forum

[Jayy1]

I feel embarrassed to even say this but at the moment I’m struggling and I live in Victoria and I am so scared that covid Is back and I don't want t to do another lockdown I can't do lockdown three if have to do another lockdown I will killmyself  I'm just saying I won't cope and also I'm supposed to go back to work on Monday but I feel like a grade shit so don't want to reopen also our baby is due in March and I'm freaking out 

oh man I feel sick I physically feel sick and I can't do this 

but also it's stupid to feel like this 

so idk 

[Muzzie]

This is a worry. At the moment it seems to be ok and no speak of another lock down. Perhaps take it may be worth taking one day at a time @Jayy1 and not think too far ahead just yet. It sounds like you have a lot to look forward to with the baby! I hope you are ok. Call lifeline if you need to talk in more detail about how you are feeling 131114 at the moment. It may help? 

[Buster1976]

Not stupid to feel that way 😞  I remember the day that Victoria opened up again (I'm in qld) and saying in a team meeting how we just could not know what you guys had been through, it was very emotional, and I think the trauma of having to go through that again makes absolutely perfect sense.  I haven't lived it but my anxiety is through the roof reading about vid and nsw and the expanding outbreaks.  The risk of cases exploding rests on a kings edge.  I look at so many places drowning in cases exponentially higher than first and second waves and that scares the bejesus out of me.   I have no answers 😞  only to remind myself to be kind to me, this is a pandemic, this is not normal, we are living through trauma on a global scale and we will be forever changed by it 

[Maggie]

@Jayy1 @Buster1976  I hear you. I can really understand how hard it would be. 

You are so right @Buster1976  these are unusual times, and the world has changed through it all.

@Jayy1  It’s not long till your baby comes. I can understand there would be stress related to that also. Sending you positive vibes .

Take care where you can.

[destructive]

@Jayy1 how are you today?

Do you live on your own or with others? If with others do they know how you're feeling?

[Buster1976]

And Brisbane is in lockdown 🤦🏼‍♀️ Only 3 days but everyone is expecting it to go longer. For all that it is stressful, I do not want to replicate the US or UK where numbers are sky high with no end in sight 🤞🏻