Highs and lows of the week?
Highs: my voluntary work. I'm not going into detail, but we're making a big difference.
Lows: I'm having flashbacks. Trauma's a bitch. (I'm a bigger one and I will be ok) |
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Highs.- Friends and family whom I adore, I feel so blessed. and a rebate from the tax man whom I also now adore.
Lows.- Losing 2 people I know to the virus  |
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Highs, coming home from work to my supportive, loving and amazing family every day 
Lows, taking constant abuse, rudeness and ignorance from customers not observing isolation on a daily basis.
I'm deeply empathic, it's really starting to affect me emotionally now...
Peach x |
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"Highs, coming home from work to my supportive, loving and amazing family every day
Lows, taking constant abuse, rudeness and ignorance from customers not observing isolation on a daily basis.
I'm deeply empathic, it's really starting to affect me emotionally now...
Peach x"
Big hugs xx |
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Highs - getting back to work after isolation and still having family well and healthy.
Lows - Hearing from a family member who is dying from cancer and is having treatment withdrawn due to the corono virus. Humbling watching a young man in his prime accept he is at the end |
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Highs: my close friends I speak to daily supporting each other with whatever we need
Lows: I hit rock bottom yesterday, finally able to dream last night and recognize I'm grieving for loosing my lifesyle that I love and I'm finally able to cry now the shock has been processed in my brain and today's a new day I can only go up  |
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My thoughts go out to everyone affected in losing loved ones and friends in all this.
Thank you for starting this thread Inaswingdress x
Glad that the way is up for you now Compersion. It can be so difficult but we all need to carry on communicating x
I'm struggling sleeping a couple of weeks into this, had a wretched night. Glad of the daylight.  |
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"Highs.- Friends and family whom I adore, I feel so blessed. and a rebate from the tax man whom I also now adore.
Lows.- Losing 2 people I know to the virus "
So sorry for your loss xx |
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"My thoughts go out to everyone affected in losing loved ones and friends in all this.
Thank you for starting this thread Inaswingdress x
Glad that the way is up for you now Compersion. It can be so difficult but we all need to carry on communicating x
I'm struggling sleeping a couple of weeks into this, had a wretched night. Glad of the daylight. "
My sleep has gone to shit, I feel that. |
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"Highs - getting back to work after isolation and still having family well and healthy.
Lows - Hearing from a family member who is dying from cancer and is having treatment withdrawn due to the corono virus. Humbling watching a young man in his prime accept he is at the end "
He sounds like a truly brave and remarkable young man xx |
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Highs, finding out one of my bestie’s is having a baby girl
Lows, approaching the second death anniversary of my best friend, and more heartbreaking as it’s also the first anniversary of his son and one of my best friends too, and the first birthday without my grandad, and I can’t get a hug off the one person I need one from, because of this lockdown. I can’t shake the guilt that I couldn’t stop my friends son taking his own life, and really feeling it at the mo as I hear of so many people feeling alone xx |
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"Highs, finding out one of my bestie’s is having a baby girl
Lows, approaching the second death anniversary of my best friend, and more heartbreaking as it’s also the first anniversary of his son and one of my best friends too, and the first birthday without my grandad, and I can’t get a hug off the one person I need one from, because of this lockdown. I can’t shake the guilt that I couldn’t stop my friends son taking his own life, and really feeling it at the mo as I hear of so many people feeling alone xx"
Oh god, huge hugs. |
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"Highs, finding out one of my bestie’s is having a baby girl
Lows, approaching the second death anniversary of my best friend, and more heartbreaking as it’s also the first anniversary of his son and one of my best friends too, and the first birthday without my grandad, and I can’t get a hug off the one person I need one from, because of this lockdown. I can’t shake the guilt that I couldn’t stop my friends son taking his own life, and really feeling it at the mo as I hear of so many people feeling alone xx
Oh god, huge hugs."
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Highs got through the week and didn’t lose as much sleep as the week before. Now got two days of to spend with the dogs and horses and the weather is brilliant. Can ride the horses out as well #loophole.
Lows seeing the shit storm still to come.  |
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Highs Talking to family over face time and having my husband by my side to help me...Lows having my first panic attack in over a year and feeling my anxiety which I have worked so hard to control for over a year creep back in ... |
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"Highs Talking to family over face time and having my husband by my side to help me...Lows having my first panic attack in over a year and feeling my anxiety which I have worked so hard to control for over a year creep back in ..."
The anxiety resurgence is common xx |
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Highs: still employed, friends + family all well, zoom yoga, kitties, plenty of food, frequent calls from my Dom whom I feel closer and closer to with every passing day, amazing feedback regarding a job that i missed by a hairs breadth
Lows: to anxious to leave the house, lonely beyond belief, worried about a suicidal friend whose job just got furlonged, really worried about a family member who has to go to hospital for onging tests, aware that my company are about to reduce working hours + pay
My heart goes out to everyone who has lost someone during this really challenging time and to everyone going through lows currently, wishing you all love and sending virtual hugs x |
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Something that's helping me climb out of my psychological hole is solidarity. I come from a place with a strong history and culture of volunteerism in the community, we all look out for each other. I'm working on translating that in the current circumstances. Remembering that we're all fighting this. We're not alone. And we can lift each other.
Maybe this will help some of you too. |
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High - been working out all week, reading, doing bits and pieces about the house. Not feeling like a lazy shite basically.
Low - not getting to Glasgow today to see Meute |
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High, got to wish my dad 77th birthday .
Low, virus means units have closed in my hospital so ive been moved further away with different role and not seeing any of my friends |
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Highs - spending quality time with D and having the technology to be able to keep in touch with friends and loved ones
Lows - missing my kids and mum like crazy and seeing the loss people are suffering |
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Lows. Snapshots of people's grief, seeing statistics that are a little scary, having an insight in to this shitstorm no one wants or needs, the ultramarathon I've been training for since November being postponed till next july. Next months holiday being cancelled
Highs. Lots. Seeing my gf and being in the position that we are both so busy at work it really is quality time together. Sunset walks. Quiet commutes. Streaming gigs. Government sanctioned running and cycling. Booking a holiday for next January. Connecting with people. A vile bully getting their comeuppance and playing a significant part in that. 8pm on Thursday. |
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Highs:
Parties with friends and family chats on Zoom. That nearly all my family and friends are still ok
Lows:
Hearing from friends and acquaintances that they have lost people they know to the virus. In fact the news of any of the deaths saddens me.
Hearing that friends are struggling with the isolation and their fears and anxieties. I wish I could help more. |
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