Hello all,
I do suffer anxiety but this damn coronavirus hitting the UK is flaring my anxiety quite badly. We’re in Wales and touch wood cases are only in South Wales. It’s terrifying me though. My hands are raw from hand washing. I stay home anyway but of course with a husband that works and children in school and one at work it terrifies me they’ll pick it up and bring it into the house. Of course I’m scared for my family but they say children get it mild. Myself having CFS and my husband having asthma, I’m worried sick:
The kids are being great hand washing, one was protesting not being allowed to go into the England cities that have cases but after talking to him he now understands I can’t risk catching it.
I can feel calmer but then as soon as I put the news on or Twitter I see what’s happened that day and I can feel close to panic but manage to ground myself. It’s more a general anxiety but it’s wearing me out all the cleaning of door handles, surfaces etc multiple times a day. I’m crashed today.
I know no one can reassure me, we’re all in the same boat. In 40 years I’ve never seen anything like this, even swine flu that killed 200k worldwide I never saw cities lock down, panic buying etc it’s scary and hard not to worry this is really serious. My husband keeps trying to reassure me I won’t die and we will all be fine, as do my friends but having CFS I worry myself all the time.
On Friday my son went to a concert in Liverpool at the university as he’d had tickets for months. I didn’t want him to go but he did. I’m now terrified what if he has it and it’s in our house before he shows symptoms. I shouldn’t have let him go but he begged and there were about 80 cases in the Uk on the day so I let him. We’re now over 320 and 5 dead. So I’m petrified now.
Take care of yourselves all xxx
I do suffer anxiety but this damn coronavirus hitting the UK is flaring my anxiety quite badly. We’re in Wales and touch wood cases are only in South Wales. It’s terrifying me though. My hands are raw from hand washing. I stay home anyway but of course with a husband that works and children in school and one at work it terrifies me they’ll pick it up and bring it into the house. Of course I’m scared for my family but they say children get it mild. Myself having CFS and my husband having asthma, I’m worried sick:
The kids are being great hand washing, one was protesting not being allowed to go into the England cities that have cases but after talking to him he now understands I can’t risk catching it.
I can feel calmer but then as soon as I put the news on or Twitter I see what’s happened that day and I can feel close to panic but manage to ground myself. It’s more a general anxiety but it’s wearing me out all the cleaning of door handles, surfaces etc multiple times a day. I’m crashed today.
I know no one can reassure me, we’re all in the same boat. In 40 years I’ve never seen anything like this, even swine flu that killed 200k worldwide I never saw cities lock down, panic buying etc it’s scary and hard not to worry this is really serious. My husband keeps trying to reassure me I won’t die and we will all be fine, as do my friends but having CFS I worry myself all the time.
On Friday my son went to a concert in Liverpool at the university as he’d had tickets for months. I didn’t want him to go but he did. I’m now terrified what if he has it and it’s in our house before he shows symptoms. I shouldn’t have let him go but he begged and there were about 80 cases in the Uk on the day so I let him. We’re now over 320 and 5 dead. So I’m petrified now.
Take care of yourselves all xxx
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