Yes, I know how you are feeling. I'm feeling some crazy off the wall symptoms that I'm told is anxiety. I too, have no social life, I have a daughter that I feel I'm letting down and I'm not close to anyone in my family (other then my daughter) it's hard right now, I guess we just have to hang in there.

Hello, I know how you feel about hoping something comes from covid-19 I recently started working at home and am by myself through the day and my anxiety is through the roof. Although I have a relationship and family I can call on I try hard to get through it without bothering anyone.
Anxiety feels like it’s getting worse as the days pass but I’m doing my best to get through it which means crying sometimes. I hope we both find some comfort from joining this support group

I am looking to make support connections here. Boy can I relate anxiety is on 1000 having anxiety right now especially health anxiety right now is a nightmare. My social life was sparse except church my family and I are very active there. That is my social life between choir and different auxiliaries and clubs my friends and I feed the homeless twice a month. Those things keep me busy which keeps my mind from falling into my web of rumination, obsessing, and anxiety and now that chunk is gone. I think its a shock to all of us

Hello Butterfly. Welcome to DS.

Somewhere in the storm of Corona opines and postulations I bumped across an article indicating that people with histories of mental illness are ahead in the Corona madness. We don't expect human culture to make sense of us and have far less sense of loss in the closings and resulting chaos crowning all the institutions we havenae ever had a stable piece of. A level playing field, at last.

Dunno if I want a piece of the PCM (Post Corona Madness), but . . . In my more serene moments I find myself wondering if the PCM culture will be one where each of us, psychotheraputed or chronically perfect alike, feels empowered to be purely and fully ourselves.

Putting my delusions of hope aside for now. . .

My flight instincts have me ready to burrow so deep I won't have to worry about washing human pathogens off my hands or out of my ears, but for now, I am still allowing myself to take comfort in knowing I am not alone in this strange new world. For now. . . The jewels of the Corona Crown are still growing and defining themselves. We see what's left after the shooting's done. Maybe. My flight instincts may have gained the upper hand by then. Go ahead and call **me** crazy. One name is as good as another.

Hi butterfly welcome to DS. These are unprecedented times for sure. I’m glad we have DS to come to talk about how we feel. Hopefully together we’ll get through this.

Hi Arfie I resonated with your words, thanks for sharing. Intuitively I feel that I've been prepped for situations like this too. Actually my anxiety started raising months before the virus panic started. I'm very susceptible to collective energy.

At the end of January I had the sudden impulse to move from my urban/city apartment to a more remote location. I felt the need to be in a nicer apartment with big windows and closer to nature. I'm glad I did because I can still leave my house now and get sunshine and say hi to my neighbors (from a safe distance of course).

I'm used to being alone and I've got most of the tools I need to pull myself up out of fear, because I've had to it on a daily basis for like, forever it seems. Like a lot of people with anxiety my childhood was very chaotic and out of control so I'm no stranger to these feelings. It's not always easy, I get triggered a lot, but I know I'm strong enough to get through it. I do hope that the 1% sorts their stuff out soon so we can all get back to our normal routines. I really feel for the 'mom and pop' establishments who will be hit the hardest financially.

Thanks for your words I appreciated them a lot.

Thank you everyone for the warm welcome! I want to reply to each one of you but it might take a little while. Unlike a lot of people my remote job hasn't effected my work schedule so I don't have that much free time, which is probably a blessing. Stay strong, I know this will pass and we'll get back to our normal lives soon!

High anxiety is a condition I've lived with for my entire broken life. I'm 65 and have spent far more time with children than adults and more time with animals than humans of any age. Interacting with both my children and my animals has me utterly convinced that anxiety is far more contagious than any microbe in nature or science. Put me in a room full of anxious perfect people and I go ballistic every time. People who are actively psychotheraputing their anxiety I can handle. Anxious deniers who insist I believe that they really are fine trigger my over-developed survival instincts. Kids and animals, too. We can smell lies far more easily than we can understand the spirit of the lie.

I still ain't worried about the microbes nor the likely possibility that it might be a microbe which ultimately facilitates my inevitable death. When the time is nigh, that is a very likely possibility. There are quite allot of microbes capable of taking out a geriatric immune system. Death doesn't frighten me. It is part of the natural order.

It's the insecure safety freaks who are scaring me into deeper isolation than the 1% intended, both literally and figuratively. You call that, "Living?" Are we safe yet?

Welcome to the anxiety board at DS.

Here's to a healthy balance and safe connections with people who understand!

Welcome and sending virtual ((hugs))

Welcome and glad that you are still able to work despite the chaos that is going on in our world.