#COVID-19 and anxiety

[livingwellnessblog]

Understanding OCD: Beyond Cleanliness and Perfection

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a complex mental health condition often oversimplified. Beyond the common themes like contamination or perfectionism, there exists a spectrum of obsessions and compulsions.

Understanding OCD: Beyond Cleanliness and Perfection Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental health condition that often gets reduced to stereotypes of excessive cleanliness and organization. While these aspects do represent a subtype of OCD, this disorder is far more complex, with a range of lesser-known themes that impact individuals profoundly. What is an OCD Theme? In essence, OCD…

[artemis-pendragon]

My brother who I spent all weekend with tested positive for Covid yesterday but my nasal swab was negative so they kept me at work and this morning my nasal swab was still negative but I had the Intuition™ and tested a sample hacked up from my lungs and yep!!!! Positive!!! Just not enough virus in my upper respiratory tract for the home test to detect 😭 so anyway moral of the story is that my work better never hit me with the "it's actually not as contagious as people say and usually doesn't infect all members of a household!" bullshit ever again lmaooooo do not doubt my devotion to epidemiology girl I know this shit like the veins in the back of my hand. ANYWAY. I have Covid help

[queercatboys]

PSA Since everyone’s favourite virus is doing the rounds again:

If you’re on antidepressants, anti-anxiety or anti-psychosis medications, be very careful with anti-inflammatory drugs!

Some of the most common anti-depressants, including Prozac, Lexapro and Zoloft can be almost completely nullified by simple anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen or diclofenac. COVID-19 is already an exhausting and depressing illness to have, so trust me when I tell you that you don’t want to suddenly lose all effectiveness from your regular medications on top of that.

Doctors are very overworked this time of year and might make mistakes, so be sure to be extra aware of what you’re taking. It might spare you a lot of grief

[captainsavre]

I hate being alone. Carina DeLuca || Station 19 (4.02 Wild World)

[n3bulas-and-satelites]

Ya bitch just tested positive for COVID for the first time.

I am going to quarantine until we can't afford to anymore. (Which is really like, one more business day). generally take home like $15 an hour.

If y'all wanna toss me tips to cover a couple of days next week, I won't say no. I may in fact cry with thanks.

[adhdandcomics]

don’t worry guys i’ve been preparing for this

[coupleofdays]

A few years ago, I decided that I would make a real effort to become more social, instead of spending most of my free time sitting at home. I was going to find ways to socialize, byt finding local groups doing stuff I'm interested in, by visiting conventions, maybe try going to concerts or clubs. Maybe even *gasp* try dating. There's a part of me who often tries to push against these ideas, coming up with excuses to stay at home instead, but I was going to do my damndest to fight against it, argue against it, or simply ignore it, because I had a genuine longing to not just sit at home, alone.

Then the Covid pandemic started.

And now, that antisocial part of me has the perfect excuse, that I'm having a really hard time arguing against.

"Oh sure, you can join a group or go to a convention, but is it really worth the hassle? You wouldn't want to endanger anyone else, would you? You'll have to wear a mask constantly (and if you start to go out regularly, that's a whole lot of masks you gotta buy!), always make sure to wash your hands if you happen to touch it, always try to keep your distance, never letting your guard down for an instant. Oh, and try to make sure that all meetings you attend are outdoors too, because being indoors with other people increases the risk!"

"And even then, even if you do everything you can perfectly, if you take every possible precaution, you'll still have the nagging knowledge that it's not 100% safe, that you might be endangering everyone around you despite your best efforts (especially since most people around you doesn't seem to care about masking anyway, and your social anxiety makes it so you don't want to bring the mood down by arguing about it). Wouldn't it be easier to just stay home and play videogames all day, and then go to bed and fall asleep while worrying about dying alone?"

[sl33py-g4m3r]

proud of myself

feel like I shouldn't be proud of this; but I am. I feel I shouldn't because it's just normal people stuff to do in the world...

goes to show how I've let anxiety have a chokehold on me for quite a good chunk of my life.

the hang up was just my vision and that the shop had remodeled so there wasn't the signs stating what's there on the windows for the ingredients. as I've stated many other times, I'm legally blind. Left eye has some vision that's very bad, right eye has none and is scar tissue. idk if that's relevant to the post at all tho...

glad anxiety didn't kick me during this today~~ that was kind of nice. cute little sandwich shop~~

Ordered my own sandwich at a sandwich shop~~!! and even got brave enough to ask about a couple cookies. still unfortunately said sorry a lot during tho...

vegetarian sandwich on cheese and herb bread with a garlic aioli. was really good~~~ spinach got wilted a bit and not crisp... but was good regardless~~

didn't realize it at the time but I guess the pandemic years affected everyone huh? I went from walking to the park in town, and to the convenience store alone, to, not going outside unless it was to my siblings place or to appointments, go shopping, take garbage out, get mail... and that was it...

Now I wish my anxiety would chill out enough for me to start walking to the park and around town again.

the "nothing changed" thing I thought of about covid in that my lifestyle hadn't changed, was in fact, incorrect. It had changed, I just hadn't noticed it until it bit me in the ass.

I still mask; I still will continue to wear masks, cause even if you aren't sick, it could prevent germs you have from getting anyone else sick. It's the polite thing to do at this point given we've been doing it for 4 years now. imo covid still exists, it's still mutating, we still need to be careful about it.

tl;dr, day with the family, ordered my own sandwich~~!! today was a good day~~ suck it anxiety~~!! we got a tasty sandwich cause you didn't get in the way~~!! wooooooo~~!!!

sleeping patterns still very weird now~~ i go to bed~~~

[starfox313]

Rant Time:

My manager knowingly came into work with covid. She claimed no one would be able to cover her shift because in her words "no one ever does". That being said, we work retail and come into close proximity with babies, children, and the elderly a lot. That's a pretty big risk already. She also knows that my immune system isn't the strongest, and you could practically sneeze in my direction, and I'd get sick. Now as if that wasn't enough, my manager claims she cleaned everything and sanitized. I went into work and determined from the layer of dust on everything that she actually hadn't done that. I then made sure to sanitize literally every surface because I didn't want to risk anything. I thought I was going to be in the clear, but lo and behold, yesterday I woke up with a fever. I took an at home covid test last night, and it was positive. Three guesses where I caught it. Now I'm calling out of work today and tomorrow (and possibly Sunday) because I don't want to put anyone else at risk. I also want to give myself time to heal and feel better. My manager has been texting me about this and getting obviously annoyed with me for calling out. And it's been making me mad because it's her fault I'm sick in the first place. She was irresponsible and exposed me and countless others. In turn, I ended up exposing others too. Yet she has still been trying to get me to come into my shifts at work. I've been keeping her updated with my symptoms including having a 101°F fever today. It's to the point that I flat out told her I will not be coming into work until I'm fever free for 24 hours, and I'm not at risk of infecting others. I'm able to miss three shifts without a doctor's note or any potential consequences at least. But the whole situation just makes me angry and frustrated.

[bandomfandombeyond]

being the only person masking at work is like being a spazzy auDHD kid in elementary school all over again:

everyone is laughing & chatting happily until you walk up, and then it all stops very obviously. a few people may offer a small hello, usually the "teacher" (boss) and a few of the nicer kids, but you've clearly disrupted group flow as people break into smaller conversation amongst themselves but, conspicuously, no one chooses to talk to you.

[fuckyeahstylesp]

The last few months of my life have been…

Traumatizing, eye opening, depressing, and genuinely terrifying.

A few months ago my 11 year old daughter nearly died after contracting COVID & pneumonia simultaneously. Her body shut down and in that moment it felt like the world paused just for us.

All of the stuff I was busy obsessing and worried over the months prior seemed so minuscule now. My kids mean the world to me. I mean, they are the sole reason I’m alive today. I mean that truly.

I have suffered so much loss over the last 5 years that the idea of losing my daughter paralyzed me. I’ve been there for so many people, but in that moment I realized I was so deeply alone and frightened. It’s too soon.. even now I’m still unable to type most of my thoughts out.

I just wanted to come on here and say - please love on your loved ones, because nothing is guaranteed.

Im starting this new journey alone, with my two kiddos.. I pray that Allah gives me strength. I pray for my kids future.

[artemis-pendragon]

Not my roommate stomping upstairs and slamming the door in annoyance after I told them I'm gonna wear a mask around them because they had a COVID exposure LMFAOOOOO literally am I insane. Like am I going insane. How are THEY annoyed at ME.

[panicismydefaultstate]

Being chronically ill and developing new symptoms and illnesses can be terribly and unendingly frustrating. Particularly when you go to Drs and they refuse to do anything about it or even consider that something else or new is wrong. The fear and overwhelming feeling that something is so terribly wrong in your body, only to have no one care or think it’s important enough to investigate.

[cherrysnax]

trying not to post too much during the strike to keep focus on Everything but I need to get out of my head a lil

[talkativetrashpanda]

Things are going well lately, my health is improving, I’m getting good reports, my aunt and uncle are doing ok, and Emma (my poodle) is doing ok as well.

And I’m scared shitless.

I’m scared because nothing ever stays good for long. Literally every time I’ve thought “things are turning around!” Something horrible happens. I’m in constant fear of waiting for the other shoe to drop. It’s like in a horror movie when you KNOW something scary is coming, and you’re anxious and terrified waiting for it.

Plus, I KNOW the bad things are coming. We were given an estimate of 12-14 months with Emma and we’re at sixteen. My uncle is 90. My aunt is on hospice. So I KNOW I’ll be dealing with those things and it’s making it hard to enjoy the good things now.

Plus I’m coming up on a year exactly from when I got really sick. I had double covid pneumonia and ended up in the hospital on oxygen. I literally thought I was going to die. And up until I got sick, I’d been improving, much like I am now. Then I got sick and was even worse than before.

I’ve made so much progress and I’m absolutely terrified of losing it again. I went downhill so fast and undid all my work for recovery. I have nightmares about getting sick again. I live in constant terror of getting sick again. And the rest of the world has moved on and forgotten covid but I can’t.

Things are better than they’ve been in three years and I’m more anxious than before. Medical ptsd is real and unfortunately not often recognized. I think approaching the anniversary date has really triggered my anxiety and stress. It doesn’t help that I have two surgeries coming up too. They should hopefully help and improve my health even more. But going back into the hospital, even temporarily, terrifies me. The IVs, the pain, the bleeding… I have to stop before I get myself too anxious to sleep.

[zoekrystall]

Did I ever complain abt that publicly idk anyways I need to get to the big city (2h to and 2h back, not much for the states but sure for me) and next to not wanting to bc cold, they gonna stab bc blood test and my body hates making that easy to locate (dif place but I will never forget the time I got stabbed like three times and still no blood so new appointment had to be made, I have a fear of needles otherwise it would be whatev), and even more risky bc gatherings were recently do I prob hate the most that like. I'm hungry.

I'm hungry and I suck at eating enough so I often go out w not much in my stomach. I survive but it sucks really bad that I can't either buy smth once I arrive to eat on the way back or pack smth to like eat on the journey bc no-one wears a mask and the virus stays rampant so I can't take my mask off until I'm back home. At the inbetween stop I maybe could but I rather won't risk anything. Esp in winter I could bring smth warm to drink w me at least but I rather don't in the crowd I gotta walk through. Least people are when I'm only a few mins away from home and at that point I can always just wait a bit longer.

Tbh I dread going outside and limit it to only shopping and appointments bc even if I could walk here prob somewhere without many people do I rather just stay indoors and try to limit irl reminders of how many people can't be bothered to care bc that just nosedives my mental health. It doesn't help that I still try to nudge my irl friends to care more.