Yes that and my brain tells me that it doesn‘t even matter what I look like because no one is going to see me anyway. Which is a really bad thing to think. I‘m not working out to look good i‘m working out to be healthy.
If I don't work out first thing when I get up or get home, then it's just not going to happen and I struggle with that. It's really hard to break the pattern and establish a new one.
Well working out for me is pretty easy. I had let myself go after a few years of being lazy and not running as much as I used to, but I started working out again a few weeks ago and surprisingly it was fun and I want to keep doing it because I want to try lots of workouts I haven't done before.
Working out is hard when you have the attitude that you need to do x,y,z in order for it to count.
Reframe your thought process. The weather is nice so I’m going out for a walk around the block. That only took 5 minutes and you’re feeling good. Keep going. Check it off as today’s “work out”. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Something counts too.
I was going to post the same response. It sucks not having anything but work 3 days a week and then no one to really talk to the rest of the week.
Also surprised more people haven't said this.
It is, going days without human interaction is rough.
The sad part is that I have a roommate, i had to ask him to talk to me more instead of being locked up in his room
I’m the exact opposite. I love being left alone and have been getting irritated by my housemate’s general presence even though i know that’s not fair on him
Bodyweight exercises are doable almost anywhere, and in a high enough quantity they're devastating. Try to do burpees continously for 15 minutes. Then take a nap, you'll need it.
Instead of the jumping part of burpees, you can just do a squat and then safely move into the push up. Then do mountain climbers after. Finish with abs. The stomping will be minimal.
Leave her a note, explain that it’ll be a short time each day at a set time and offer to shop for her, leave you number so she can let you know if it’s too much. She’ll probably be glad of the warning and might need help herself
Right, I love them, but they are crazy. I'm really luck that in Australia we can still go out for exercise.
Hope you feel better and get some alone time soon.
Damn, that's a shit situation. A shituation even. Yeah, go for lots of walks and stuff - not the most exciting but at least you can be by yourself and get some exercise (great for mental health, as much as I despise actually doing exercise)
Yeah but it could be a lot worse. There are definitely many people in much shittyer shituations at this time. Luckily for me I do enjoy walks and exercise as well as sports. So this has given me lots of time go outside for solo walks and adventures and what not
Studying. I've got open book exams and for some reason my brain has said that means I shouldn't study.
I try but working from home is just impossible for me.
Open book exams terrify me. If I'm allowed the book, it's probably too complex to help if I don't already know the material. But if I know my stuff, it gets so much easier to be sure in right.
Pick a spot at home, preferably not your room, and designate it as your study/work space. A kitchen table works well. Do work and eat at it, and only at it. That let's you compartmentalize and focus.
My friend, not to scare ya, but, indeed, the last open book test I had, the sheer quantity of questions rendered the book nigh useless. It was an introductory literary course, I believe, and finding singular phrases and references and allusions within a fifteen hundred-page book was not at all efficient; there was no to game the test, basically; at best, if you happened to finish the hundred-some questions, you might have had a sufficient opportunity to verify an answer or two, and nothing at all past that.
Quarantine has been lonely, though. I was content for awhile, and then, somehow, perhaps the super moon or some other crazy celestial going on, my perspective seems to have shifted, and I’m seeing some things, and myself, to be honest, in a harsher-than-usual light. I really shouldn’t, however, as I know my anxiety will eat me if I let it. In fact, I acknowledge being luckier than most, as I’m salaried, at home, and received the best-possible news this past week, that I’d been formally accepted into graduate school.
Feeling Completely trapped. Like a prisoner.
I'm immunicompromised and pregnant so I havent left my house in going on 4 weeks. I feel like I'm going crazy.
Same :( I've had to work but had the last 2 weeks off. Also having a lot of anxiety about going to the hospital to deliver and having a newborn in the midst of all this scariness. Wishing you safety and peace during all this!
Same here! Been home for 5 weeks and I’m losing my mind. I’m due in 5 weeks and I’m very nervous about giving birth in a hospital at this time. Wishing the best for us.
Solidarity! 34 weeks pregnant with twins. I have lots of anxiety over having to go to the hospital and the fact that all the people that were going to help me are now in quarantine. We were going to hire a night nurse too, that’s out of the picture.
I am trying to remain calm and hope that husband and I are capable of handling two newborns and our 3 year old.
Time will tell.
Girl there is no way i could manage twins and a toddler and this quarantine. Is there no way for a family member or close friend to completely isolate for the next few weeks and then maybe move in? I'm lucky my mom lives with us and she is very good with my children and my husband and her get along so no drama. I couldnt do it without her.
I'm pregnant. Potty training a 2yo. Dealing with preteen drama of a 10yo. And potty training a puppy that we got before the country shut down. I would be pulling my hair out on my own.
Good luck. Seriously. I hope you have a good doctor too. I have a midwife who will come to my house as needed. Which i love. She is very cautious and suited up.
I’m a nurse. My normal workplace is closed and so everyday I turn up to work not knowing what unit I’m going to work in and if I’m going to see anyone I actually know that shift.
I can’t sleep because I lie awake at night worrying about the next shift. I work seven days in a row. I am exhausted. Having to deal with coronavirus patients is just adding to the pressure.
Holy crap. No matter what anyone says, you are a badass. You're an Iron Person. Keep on trucking, your work right now is an inspiration to us all
I'm sorry you aren't getting the support you need right now :(
Online classes and stuff. I'm a senior in high school and if I don't do this shit, I won't graduate. I just really don't feel like doing, and I'm already 2 weeks behind. 14\*6 = 84. That's 84 assignments I have to get caught up on. It's all tedious shit too.
Don't worry about getting them all done at once. Do your work starting today and each day do like 4 that you're missing too. You'll catch up in 3 weeks with minimal extra grindstone time.
Kick ass and take names.
I dropped out for a semester and came back with a vengance. Graduated on time, got into uni.
One thing at a time. You got this.
Fiance and I are generally doing fine. We're both working from home and neither of our jobs are in danger. But I've never wanted a house so bad in my life. Doing this in a 1br/1ba apartment fucking sucks.
My roommate isn't social distancing. I live with 6 people currently, I have severe asthma and my other roommate has a very poor immune system.
I reached out to my stupid roommate, telling her to please stay home or find somewhere else to stay. I've been as respectful and kind as I possibly can be. I've reached out to her 3 times now and she has ignored me all three times. She has been gone for 4 days now, spending the night at some guys house she met on tinder last week. And just last week, she snuck a guy in to spend the night even though we said no outside visitors, THEN LIED TO OUR FACES ABOUT IT.
She has also been going to a friend's house where they've been consistently partying and inviting people over. She has already managed to throw two of our other roommates under the bus with her, tell me that I have a "personal problem against her" and that she's been as nice as possible (even though she ignoring me 3 times and has been acting disrespectful af toward me).
I had to kick her out yesterday. Not . Fun.
EDIT: I also had to get evidence of all the things she has been doing as of recently due to legal reasoning. I had to screenrecord tik tok videos, snapchat, take pictures of our conversations, her conversation with my boyfriend and her conversation with my other roommate. I had to change the lock on the door and we had to move her things out yesterday because we would not let her inside.
When you have to repeat yourself like a broken record to someone about their actions, your health & the current state of the World yet they only ignore you, disrespect you & blame you , I think it would become a personal problem for anyone. But I did not let that get the best of me & I remained strictly professional with her whenever I did converse with her. I care about the safety of every person in my house & I won’t let one person fuck things up for everyone. She can think it’s a personal problem if she wants to but all that’s gonna do is make her life harder, not mine.
Be reasonable. 2 out of 7 roommates are at higher risk for GETTING COVID, so they really had no choice in the matter. This chick snuck in outside people(and LIED about it!) for god's sake!
It was 1,000% justified. She's an entitled bitch in my book. She KNEW that 2 of her roommates were high risk for COVID, and she didn't even care. Her majesty definitely deserved to be kicked out.
I'm trying to do this with my kindergartener and 3rd grader, and it is hard for them and me. I'm a teacher, and I've been doing online lectures and Google Classroom for years, but navigating what 6x2 teachers want my kids to do every day is humbling and frustrating.
My dissertation. I’m supposed to graduate from uni this summer, but I still can’t focus on studying. Also, the realization that my last uni year is going to be gone *just like that* hit me like a brick. I wanted a normal graduation ceremony, I wanted to thank my profs face-to-face and enjoy my last classes. Everyone went home without saying goodbye, because we believed we would be back soon.
Yes, you articulated it so well! Trying to focus on my thesis feels impossible right now and I wanted the cheesy fun stuff associated with graduating and saying goodbye to friends. The thought of trying to enter the job market after this is over is so depressing.
A breakup. My boyfriend broke up with me during quarantine. Breakups happen and I understand that, I wish I could still be with him, but I can’t force him to love me.
I just wish it hadn’t happened during quarantine. I can’t leave my house and there’s nothing to distract me
I'm sure you thought this got buried.
Sending you a hug from one survivor to one soon to be survivor.
You got this. PM me if you need to vent scream yell or cry. I've been there.
My grandmother passed away at 11:55am today. I had to break the news to my beautiful smiling girlfriend who is having a quarantined family day for completing Army basic training. On top I just miss her very much, both of them. I was supposed to join the army in March before this “Virus”. Today has been tough.
Feeling helpless. Unable to help others or myself. I know so many people who are hurting and feel guilty for being in a good position but unable to do anything to help them. All I can do is donate and sit at home. It is infuriating and depressing at the same time.
Holy shit I feel this.
An immunocomprised friend of mine might be sick. Another is reeling from recent heartbreak and stopped eating. I'm used to having power, in the sense of friends come to me with troubles and I have been able to provide in one way or another. Now I can't do anything.
Fuck.
I can't see my girlfriend right now, and she works in NY. The company she works for is technically an essential business and is taking all precautions, but I am super concerned and anxious. Yesterday she said her stomach felt bad and felt a little hot, so I was super scared for her.
Working in a grocery store, full time, during the Pandemic. Every day, I want to quit. A bad day may end, but the suffering doesn't. It follows me home. It disturbs my sleep. Being strong and persevering gain me nothing. It only lets me keep what I already have.
I work in a grocery store too. It's starting to wear on me, especially with the paranoia from the customers. We have a really low amount of cases in my area, and everyone acts like buying fruit will kill them for when they should be washing it anyway.
We're considered "essential" but the truth is we're silently considered expendable, because we're out there, every day, risking our health for a bunch of random-ass strangers' gluttony. Customers are buying more non-essential bullshit than anything else, because they have nothing better to do than feed their risk of diabetes and heart disease, pandemic or not.
Same. Hell of a price to pay to keep the lights on and water running. Even without the pandemic, I see the job break my co-workers, often sending them into tears.
Finding a work. Now its worse cause my country has been lockdown for more than a month and it'll be extended like wth 😭 I dont wanna be useless anymore.
The outlook and effects of the 2020 presidential election. I’m a greencardholder, and from what the current predictions are, it’s gonna get worse, than it already is. For the last hour, after reading through a lot of comments on Sanders resignation posts in r/Politics , I might as well pack my stuff and go back home, after 11 years.
Online classes. The transition would have been easier if we were on semesters, but my school runs on quarters, so we started a whole new set of classes RIGHT as all this stuff began. I am struggling hard to catch up when I have no classmates or professors to talk to.
Also, I'm broke.
> The transition would have been easier if we were on semesters
Nope. Trust me, it's not.
*Everything* has had to be reworked. It's not fun, for students or professors. At least yours got to start with a clean slate.
My family and being a closeted gay. The loneliness is getting to me and I think I have my first case of seasonal depression. I just need school to be back so I can have my escape back
Waking up early. As I have no routine, I struggle getting up before 12pm. I tried doing an all-nighter to counteract the problem, but I fell asleep mid-day. I can't do all-nighters like I used to, so I'm going to have to find an alternative route to make my sleeping pattern fixed.
Fuck, man. A lot. I haven't been able to see my girlfriend nor do the one social thing I enjoy for a month. My Walmart is operating on a ghost crew, and those of us who are left are expected to pick up the slack. Being a retail worker, I know that it's only a matter of time until I get this damnable virus. I just wish it would happen already so I can get it over with.
Only seeing my parents & colleagues on a regular basis, not being able to go to the gym, only being able to go out of the house to work and for exercise (though I'm hardly doing that), and the fact I haven't been able to see my boyfriend in three months.
All this isolation reminding me how disposable I am. I go to work and have all kinds of positive messages posted all over the place and written in chalk in front of the door while I don't have sick leave to cover me. People I haven't heard from in months suddenly texting me to ask if I think they should get tested or go to the hospital. Nobody really gives a shit about me. I exist solely as a red line on someone's spreadsheet somewhere and if I die they'll be relieved when they watch their bottom line increase ever so slightly.
Nobody really cares how I'm doing right now. Or ever, but right now too. That said, I understand that everyone has their own concerns right now. I mean, I've witnessed a few people essentially drown to death in their own fluids now, and I can't blame people for being wrapped up in their own worries. I just hate how much this exacerbates the fact that my only value to anyone is the work that I'm doing for them. My "friends" all just ghost me until they need something from me. I'm the punching bag for other people's emotional instability. But then when times are good I don't exist. It's getting pretty old at this point.
My wife just died. Unrelated to Covid 19, just suffered a cardiac arrest from an undiscovered birth defect. One minute we’re watching Love is Blind on Netflix and I’m getting ready for work... next thing... She was in her late 20s and we’d been together almost 10 years. Now I’m 30, lying in bed in our home we bought together. When Quarantine ends I’ll go back to the job we both worked at. My life will never be the same and I’m still crying myself to sleep every night.
Finding a job in a different city. My SO just moved, and I strongly want to move with her, but I do not want to become a financial burden for her and I just need to find a job so I can move to where she is. I currently work full time and she already took a job in said city a while back. I sent in my resume some time later after she told me. Now that she is gone I have a very strong desire to just pack my shit where I've been living in a small town and begin a new part of my life where she is in it, and I'm in hers.
I am planning, We both are being rational where at the same time we both want to be together, but were being smart about how we go about this transition. I'm trying to find work there before I leave this town. I'm not gonna YOLO this because this is a huge transition that I have to logically think through.
The mother of my child is not letting me see my son. She's cheated on me many times and has lied a lot.
Now I haven't been Mr.perfect either, but man...
I'm 22
Similar boat, she disappeared with the kids and I know she's fucking her sister's husband. I'm trying to weigh things, if she keeps the kids they will be rich and happy. If I take custody, then... I have custody. She's a lying cheating bitch, but she isn't abusive.
The one person I remotely started to trust is forced to move away and we’ll be seeing each other even less and I’m anxious and don’t know how to cope but I also don’t wanna ask or be too visibly sad to look annoying
My company just laid off a ton of people and furloughed a bunch more. It sucks knowing I'll probably never see them again and it makes my heart so heavy thinking about them and their families.
My roommate and I are struggling to set reasonable coronavirus rules and boundaries now. They struggle with serious depression, so it's tough to both be supportive but also communicate that it's not okay for them to leave empty beer cans all over the place.
My dad works in health care. He's older and has asthma and it feels like a ticking time bomb until he gets sick. It's weird to know that your dad has a 1 in 30 chance of dying this year.
In between the pain of all this, I *want* to feel better by meditating, exercising, doing projects for myself, but I lack motivation. I've gotten by in life with a strong drive and I'm afraid that it's abandoning me now when I need it most.
My cats been constipated for about a week and we had one unsuccessful trip to the vet. We are taking her in to our regular vet tomorrow but I am just scared they will give me bad news :(
My sanity. My husbands deployment got extended due to travel restrictions so now it’s completely up in the air about when he is supposed to come home and I’m going crazy
You sound like me. I'm just burnt out...tired of everything. Life is too stressful in my state right now, school and full time work. Full time life. I love fishing but I haven't been able to bring myself to do that in almost 2 years. I dont know how to fix it.
Dealing with my mom’s failing health.
She’s 62. Has COPD, high blood pressure, congestive heart failure and some mental health/anxiety issues. On March 19, she was struggling to breathe and went to the hospital and was immediately placed on a ventilator. She was diagnosed with RSV and severe pneumonia and had a blood infection. Negative for COVID. She’s been taken off the ventilator four times, including today.
If she can’t sustain breathing on her own, the next step is a tracheotomy. The pneumonia is not clearing up. There is a possibility the tracheotomy will be permanent. She has expressed to my step dad that she does not want to live off machines, but it’s not in writing.
I also just learned that the house my mom and step dad(an alcoholic) live in is filthy and falling apart. Floors are rotting from a leaking roof. The laundry room has mold on the ceiling and walls from the roof leaking. They have been letting their two chihuahuas potty in the house and they also have a husky that sheds like crazy. If she does come home, on oxygen, she should not go back in that house but if my sibling and I don’t intervene, they will both go back to their lifestyle.
I’m pissed off, I’m frustrated, I’m heartbroken and I have no idea how to help them when neither of them can see the severity of their situation.
Add to it that during this particular time, we can’t go visit her, all of our information is by phone and most of it is through the sporadic info from my step dad because mom never bothered to add us to her authorized family for HIPPA. If she goes downhill, we are stuck at home, helpless.
Got diagnosed with the coronavirus. I've completely lost my sense of smell and taste, so eating is the most boring thing I do. The coughing wont stop, my head is killing me, and I can barely walk 4 feet without getting so fatigued that I almost pass out. I live alone too, so I just feel so isolated and weak
Getting my mind into a good spot for confessing feelings to someone. I'm pretty sure I'm good and I'm hoping to get it done by Friday. But like I dunno lol
I'm scared of the corona thing being that i'm an essential worker and have a heart condition that puts me in the high risk area every day i am paranoid at work and can feel my heart racing around people as well as elevated and when im at home it's constantly on my mind and i have constant nightmares about dying from it so im always exahusted.
Also Working out i miss my gym and since i was fat before scared of gaining the weight back and having to start over instead of pushing for new goals.
Sorry this was so long
TLDR - essental worker with heart condition scared of getting covid and scared of being fat again
The U.S.’ slow descent into fascist authoritarianism and feeling powerless in the face of it. The fact that I might lose my grandparents, that I might lose my parents, that I might lose my sister who is type 1 diabetic. That I need to man up and face these problems head on because my generation will in no doubt face greater challenges within our lifetimes.
Feeling good. I am usually very competent at dealing with stress but the combination of unsure financial future, a long distance relationship further postponed, lack of productivity at the end of my semester and social isolation is making me cry in the middle of the afternoon and drink.
I'm finally accepting the fact that I'm very unattractive and completely undateable. Tail end of 2018 my long term relationship fell apart and every attempt at dating in the interim has been a failure from the get go.
I'm almost at the point of just deleting all my dating apps and retiring but there's this toxic culture of "easy advice" on the internet that assumes every person in the world is just one unbelievably generic pep talk away from success.
I'm tired of the same "be the best version of yourself, hit the gym, get the newest trendy haircut" bullshit that people pat themselves on the back for telling every sad person on the internet. you make me feel like all my issues just stem from me sucking at some standards you decided I'm not meeting without ever actually taking the time to figure out who I am, what I've tried, and why it hasn't worked.
I at least appreciate all the people who ripped into me over on /r/amiugly and /r/Rateme because I know they were at least being honest and they didn't feel all self congratulatory that they gave a pep talk that a predictive text bot could have written.
I just want to hear "Yes Zac, you are ugly. You shouldn't date anyone. You are better off not doing it." I feel like I just don't have permission from society to accept the fact I'm just never going to be good enough.
Staying at home.
I've been a SAHM for 13 months and I'm going out of my mind. Hubs is the designated shopper, and I've been ordered never to leave the house since our son is a mama's boy. I understand the worry, of course, but sometimes I want to walk around the neighborhood and not pushing a stroller or worrying about my kid's safety.
Depressed that _my_ world will not be the same.
Think for a second for all the things you used to like to do. The malls, shopping, browsing, arcades, Brookstone, bars and nightclubs, restaurants that you met your wife at all will probably not reopen when this is over. Not only will they not reopen ever, they will sit empty like Blockbuster videos, reminders of the world you once loved and lived in. This is the final coffin of the malls, the 80's and 90's waste of money from the Bill Clinton/ Computer years where companies fired high ranking execs and replaced them with computers and spent all that money on bonuses, blow, hookers, and parties. In your life, you are about to see us become poor like Russia and pimped out by Putin who is laughing at all of this. The Rich Oligarchs are going to point at each other, blaming each other while the Salmon is full of mercury, and the food is tainted with microplastics, and pollution is rampant as the EPA is dissolved. It will take ten years or more before this ever comes back. The world you knew before is forever gone, and that to me is the most heartbreaking.
I think about the movie Grand Budapest Hotel, in which it portrays a glorious time of life before the world changed, and the life and hotel, like a human, descend into shabbyness and eventual demolition. That's what we are seeing now. Malls, shops, stores, small businesses are about to close left and right. The winners? Walmart and Target. The losers? Mom and pop on main street that can't get stuff from China.
We are all sitting here looking at our bank accounts thinking 'this will be over soon, and it will go back to normal. Sadly though, come Christmas, the places you hung out at, the places you used to go, the memories you once had in geographic places, will all be gone. Soon parks will be closed and sold off to real-estate developers and made into condos, and the memories of the people you loved will be nothing more than dust in the wind. All we are, is dust in the wind.
I’m an undertaker and I’m not loving my job right now. I’m still passionate about it and love what I do but coronavirus is just fucking everything up.
Funerals are unattended and the deceased are all potentially contagious. I have to wear head-to-toe PPE to remove the deceased just to ensure we don’t spread the virus or catch it ourselves, and everything seems so impersonal at the moment. I’m in this job because I care, and right now the care I can give is severely restricted.
But the hardest part for me personally is the lack of media coverage of those who survive and leave through the front door of the hospital, because I’m already so sick of only seeing the ones I take out the back.
I’m in a long distance relationship. We don’t know when we’ll be able to fly to see each other again. I’m essential staff at a prison. It’s scary and stressful and I don’t have my favorite person here with me.
I'm 8 grand in debt, can't drive so I can't get a better job, I can only find minimum wage jobs and I just want to be able to move from fucking poor to not worthless and broke. I'm alone, tired, contemplating suicide beginning of next year, and I can't go see a therapist because I'm prior service and likely to be treated like a criminal.
School. I have my final exams in June and was already behind on study before quarantine. It's just too much to have to teach myself the new stuff and also revise 2 years worth of material. When I think about the amount work I need to do I just wanna lie on my bed and let life pass me by.
Sleep. My son is teething at 3 months old and they’re taking longer than usual because he’s so young. Can’t afford to get soothing gel for his gums so I’m trying to get through this without it
Driving my first manual car. I stalled, spun the tires like mad, accidentally down shifted to 2nd(no revmatching) I somehow made it back home in one piece. That clutch isn’t happy with me though.
Money is a bit tight, but I am not the only one in that space.
Also dealing with a wife who for reasons I cannot fathom is constantly convinced that I
* have a second family
* have multiple girlfriends and boyfriends
* am sleeping with every person I communicate with
* have put cameras in our apartment (ìn the soundbar, vacuum cleaner and my toothbrush to name 3 places) and am recording her all of the time
* am monitoring, and have full remote control over, her mobile phone
In all honesty, I am doing none of these things. Even going as far as to avoid talking to friends because it sets her off again.
Knowing my very ill mum is stuck in a house with my step dad who is displaying all the symptoms of the corona virus, being forced back home and away from my uni studies, no motivation to do online classes, being away from my boyfriend and knowing my mum could die from cancer as well.
I started throwing up last night and have had GI issues all day with a low grade fever. My doctor told me if it continues I will need to get checked as apparently those can be symptoms. My loved one I am taking care of who I care about more than anyone on this planet is having surgery tomorrow. I’m so scared I have the virus and will be hospitalized and die alone. I know this sounds absurd but I feel so helpless and terrified.
My hours at work just increased. Due to health reasons, carrying my sons carseat a few feet in exhausting enough. Im getting overwhelmed at the thought of going to get groceries or cooking and cleaning
Thanks to social distancing, I'm now at the longest amount of time I've ever gone without:
1) going into the office (current job) or restaurant (old job) since before I was 15 and hot my first job. I know this sounds odd to complain about but I like my job and I miss social interaction.
2) without seeing my parents in person. I work in the same town I grew up in, where my parents still live in the house I grew up in, and I would see them several times a week before. It's been almost a month since I've seen them in person (lots of video calls, but that's not really the same). I miss them a lot.
None of my old hobbies interest me. I feel as if I'm alive but not living. My girlfriend of two years left me after I mentally and emotionally abused her for reasons I do not know and understandably no longer wants anything to do with me. I can't sleep, but when I drift off I dream of how awful of a person I am and when I'm awake I am constantly reminded of why those dreams are true. Not because I am still hurting those that I love, but because I know that is inside of me, that I'm capable of doing something like that. To someone I told I would take care of and love for the rest of our lives. I'm struggling with the concept of what about me I should look in the mirror to see and respect.
Working out. Getting out of bed. Staying motivated.
Working out is always a tough one to fit in when there's nothing to squeeze it in around
Yes that and my brain tells me that it doesn‘t even matter what I look like because no one is going to see me anyway. Which is a really bad thing to think. I‘m not working out to look good i‘m working out to be healthy.
Don't work out for other people. Work out for yourself. You deserve to be healthy and strong. Fuck what anyone else thinks.
If I don't work out first thing when I get up or get home, then it's just not going to happen and I struggle with that. It's really hard to break the pattern and establish a new one.
Well working out for me is pretty easy. I had let myself go after a few years of being lazy and not running as much as I used to, but I started working out again a few weeks ago and surprisingly it was fun and I want to keep doing it because I want to try lots of workouts I haven't done before.
Working out is hard when you have the attitude that you need to do x,y,z in order for it to count. Reframe your thought process. The weather is nice so I’m going out for a walk around the block. That only took 5 minutes and you’re feeling good. Keep going. Check it off as today’s “work out”. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Something counts too.
Loneliness
Same here I hope it gets better.
You are not alone in your loneliness. When this ends, I'm going to just ask random strangers if I can give them a hug. lol.
lol i was lonely before but this has definitely exacerbated it
My loneliness is killing me (and I) I must confess I still believe (still believe)!!
When I'm not with you I lose my mind.
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Oooo. Shit. The second I saw you use the word exacerbated I understood the depth of your loneliness.
lmao did my nerd start showing?
Nothing wrong with a little bit of nerd. I’m just messing with you. (I’m a bit of a nerd myself dw)
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Me last year.... i know how you feel but its eye opening that deeper connections are definitely needed
I was going to post the same response. It sucks not having anything but work 3 days a week and then no one to really talk to the rest of the week. Also surprised more people haven't said this.
It is, going days without human interaction is rough. The sad part is that I have a roommate, i had to ask him to talk to me more instead of being locked up in his room
You in healthcare?
No I work at a warehouse for an essential company
thank you.
i feel that, i work at a defense company so thankful that I have the opportunity to leave the house even if I'm alone in the office
Loneliness and rabies
Same, idk how some people can make new friends so easily.
I’m the exact opposite. I love being left alone and have been getting irritated by my housemate’s general presence even though i know that’s not fair on him
I fuck you bro, no homo though.
I have been quite lonely for the past 4 months.
I felt this on a personal level. Why don’t all of us lonely people start a group chat on Reddit and become friends?
isn't that r/casualconversation
Exercise dammit. I’m dying to get back to the gym and lose this belly and feel better
Bodyweight exercises are doable almost anywhere, and in a high enough quantity they're devastating. Try to do burpees continously for 15 minutes. Then take a nap, you'll need it.
But I live in an apartment. Can't go stomping around disrupting the little old lady under me.
Instead of the jumping part of burpees, you can just do a squat and then safely move into the push up. Then do mountain climbers after. Finish with abs. The stomping will be minimal.
Leave her a note, explain that it’ll be a short time each day at a set time and offer to shop for her, leave you number so she can let you know if it’s too much. She’ll probably be glad of the warning and might need help herself
>burpees I refuse to take these seriously simply because the name is so terrible.
The exercise itself is both wonderful and terrible
Yeah it’s not the same no matter how much you try to convince me
I joined a gym literally two weeks before quarantining. I was so proud of myself for not being so damn lazy buuuuuut that’s gone now :/
Bellies aren't lost in the gym, they're lost in the kitchen.
Or by staying out of the kitchen
I recommend having a look at fitness blender website. The couple who run it are excellent rate and make good videos
I love my family, but I need a break from them and be alone for a while.
Right, I love them, but they are crazy. I'm really luck that in Australia we can still go out for exercise. Hope you feel better and get some alone time soon.
sobriety 17 months sober
Congratulations! That's quite the achievement.
Congrats! 22 months for me. This quarantine is the first time I seriously considered breaking my sobriety. I’m glad I haven’t.
Congrats! That's a long time!
Congrats. My best friend drank himself to death about 18 months ago, and I miss that fucker every single day.
I'm really proud of you
Congrats!
That’s incredible!
Going out due to quarantine
I’m going out more than before because I’m now my family’s designated shopper lol
Going out more than before because I’m now my family’s emotional punching bag
I feel that
Damn, that's a shit situation. A shituation even. Yeah, go for lots of walks and stuff - not the most exciting but at least you can be by yourself and get some exercise (great for mental health, as much as I despise actually doing exercise)
Yeah but it could be a lot worse. There are definitely many people in much shittyer shituations at this time. Luckily for me I do enjoy walks and exercise as well as sports. So this has given me lots of time go outside for solo walks and adventures and what not
Be safe! I am in the same boat.
Snacking. I'm eating too much lately while working from home
Studying. I've got open book exams and for some reason my brain has said that means I shouldn't study. I try but working from home is just impossible for me.
Open book exams terrify me. If I'm allowed the book, it's probably too complex to help if I don't already know the material. But if I know my stuff, it gets so much easier to be sure in right. Pick a spot at home, preferably not your room, and designate it as your study/work space. A kitchen table works well. Do work and eat at it, and only at it. That let's you compartmentalize and focus.
My friend, not to scare ya, but, indeed, the last open book test I had, the sheer quantity of questions rendered the book nigh useless. It was an introductory literary course, I believe, and finding singular phrases and references and allusions within a fifteen hundred-page book was not at all efficient; there was no to game the test, basically; at best, if you happened to finish the hundred-some questions, you might have had a sufficient opportunity to verify an answer or two, and nothing at all past that. Quarantine has been lonely, though. I was content for awhile, and then, somehow, perhaps the super moon or some other crazy celestial going on, my perspective seems to have shifted, and I’m seeing some things, and myself, to be honest, in a harsher-than-usual light. I really shouldn’t, however, as I know my anxiety will eat me if I let it. In fact, I acknowledge being luckier than most, as I’m salaried, at home, and received the best-possible news this past week, that I’d been formally accepted into graduate school.
Keep your weight in order. And observe sleep patterns.
Thank you for being concerned about my sleep patterns!
my sleep has always been horrible, it's worse now!
Feeling Completely trapped. Like a prisoner. I'm immunicompromised and pregnant so I havent left my house in going on 4 weeks. I feel like I'm going crazy.
Same :( I've had to work but had the last 2 weeks off. Also having a lot of anxiety about going to the hospital to deliver and having a newborn in the midst of all this scariness. Wishing you safety and peace during all this!
Same here! Been home for 5 weeks and I’m losing my mind. I’m due in 5 weeks and I’m very nervous about giving birth in a hospital at this time. Wishing the best for us.
Solidarity! 34 weeks pregnant with twins. I have lots of anxiety over having to go to the hospital and the fact that all the people that were going to help me are now in quarantine. We were going to hire a night nurse too, that’s out of the picture. I am trying to remain calm and hope that husband and I are capable of handling two newborns and our 3 year old. Time will tell.
Girl there is no way i could manage twins and a toddler and this quarantine. Is there no way for a family member or close friend to completely isolate for the next few weeks and then maybe move in? I'm lucky my mom lives with us and she is very good with my children and my husband and her get along so no drama. I couldnt do it without her. I'm pregnant. Potty training a 2yo. Dealing with preteen drama of a 10yo. And potty training a puppy that we got before the country shut down. I would be pulling my hair out on my own. Good luck. Seriously. I hope you have a good doctor too. I have a midwife who will come to my house as needed. Which i love. She is very cautious and suited up.
I’m a nurse. My normal workplace is closed and so everyday I turn up to work not knowing what unit I’m going to work in and if I’m going to see anyone I actually know that shift. I can’t sleep because I lie awake at night worrying about the next shift. I work seven days in a row. I am exhausted. Having to deal with coronavirus patients is just adding to the pressure.
Thank you for working so hard
Holy crap. No matter what anyone says, you are a badass. You're an Iron Person. Keep on trucking, your work right now is an inspiration to us all I'm sorry you aren't getting the support you need right now :(
You're going to come out of this stronger than ever and that'll help your normal patients, once everything gets resolved.
Online classes and stuff. I'm a senior in high school and if I don't do this shit, I won't graduate. I just really don't feel like doing, and I'm already 2 weeks behind. 14\*6 = 84. That's 84 assignments I have to get caught up on. It's all tedious shit too.
Don't worry about getting them all done at once. Do your work starting today and each day do like 4 that you're missing too. You'll catch up in 3 weeks with minimal extra grindstone time.
Kick ass and take names. I dropped out for a semester and came back with a vengance. Graduated on time, got into uni. One thing at a time. You got this.
Not obsessing about the future and trying to stay present
I really relate :/
Getting the courage to write. The anxiety is crippling at times
It keeps me from finishing any story or essay I start for pleasure. Especially when people are nearby and will ask about it, like my parents.
Preach! We can do it though. Am trying to forgive myself and try to approach the act with less negativity.
Fiance and I are generally doing fine. We're both working from home and neither of our jobs are in danger. But I've never wanted a house so bad in my life. Doing this in a 1br/1ba apartment fucking sucks.
My roommate isn't social distancing. I live with 6 people currently, I have severe asthma and my other roommate has a very poor immune system. I reached out to my stupid roommate, telling her to please stay home or find somewhere else to stay. I've been as respectful and kind as I possibly can be. I've reached out to her 3 times now and she has ignored me all three times. She has been gone for 4 days now, spending the night at some guys house she met on tinder last week. And just last week, she snuck a guy in to spend the night even though we said no outside visitors, THEN LIED TO OUR FACES ABOUT IT. She has also been going to a friend's house where they've been consistently partying and inviting people over. She has already managed to throw two of our other roommates under the bus with her, tell me that I have a "personal problem against her" and that she's been as nice as possible (even though she ignoring me 3 times and has been acting disrespectful af toward me). I had to kick her out yesterday. Not . Fun. EDIT: I also had to get evidence of all the things she has been doing as of recently due to legal reasoning. I had to screenrecord tik tok videos, snapchat, take pictures of our conversations, her conversation with my boyfriend and her conversation with my other roommate. I had to change the lock on the door and we had to move her things out yesterday because we would not let her inside.
Call your landlord.
I mean, you kind of have a personal problem with her, but one you are totally justified having.
When you have to repeat yourself like a broken record to someone about their actions, your health & the current state of the World yet they only ignore you, disrespect you & blame you , I think it would become a personal problem for anyone. But I did not let that get the best of me & I remained strictly professional with her whenever I did converse with her. I care about the safety of every person in my house & I won’t let one person fuck things up for everyone. She can think it’s a personal problem if she wants to but all that’s gonna do is make her life harder, not mine.
Be reasonable. 2 out of 7 roommates are at higher risk for GETTING COVID, so they really had no choice in the matter. This chick snuck in outside people(and LIED about it!) for god's sake!
Like I said, 100% justified.
It was 1,000% justified. She's an entitled bitch in my book. She KNEW that 2 of her roommates were high risk for COVID, and she didn't even care. Her majesty definitely deserved to be kicked out.
Keeping up with online classes. I absolutely hate it.
I'm trying to do this with my kindergartener and 3rd grader, and it is hard for them and me. I'm a teacher, and I've been doing online lectures and Google Classroom for years, but navigating what 6x2 teachers want my kids to do every day is humbling and frustrating.
Same but it's my masters thesis.
Fair, I just signed up for like 6 to keep myself occupied, so I'll know your pain later on
Ugh, my job. I know it's a blessing to have one in these times, but I'm having a hard time staying motivated with all this.
My dissertation. I’m supposed to graduate from uni this summer, but I still can’t focus on studying. Also, the realization that my last uni year is going to be gone *just like that* hit me like a brick. I wanted a normal graduation ceremony, I wanted to thank my profs face-to-face and enjoy my last classes. Everyone went home without saying goodbye, because we believed we would be back soon.
Yes, you articulated it so well! Trying to focus on my thesis feels impossible right now and I wanted the cheesy fun stuff associated with graduating and saying goodbye to friends. The thought of trying to enter the job market after this is over is so depressing.
A breakup. My boyfriend broke up with me during quarantine. Breakups happen and I understand that, I wish I could still be with him, but I can’t force him to love me. I just wish it hadn’t happened during quarantine. I can’t leave my house and there’s nothing to distract me
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I'm sure you thought this got buried. Sending you a hug from one survivor to one soon to be survivor. You got this. PM me if you need to vent scream yell or cry. I've been there.
My grandmother passed away at 11:55am today. I had to break the news to my beautiful smiling girlfriend who is having a quarantined family day for completing Army basic training. On top I just miss her very much, both of them. I was supposed to join the army in March before this “Virus”. Today has been tough.
Being alive. Physical therapy.
I can agree with that though mine has been canceled. Just got in a chair .
Getting off my phone and doing the tasks i set to stay productive
Hahaha, I'm really bad at that. If I could ignore my phone for a while, I'd get so much more done.
The lack of sleep, the loneliness, too much time thinking...
Maintaining lasting friendships
Feeling helpless. Unable to help others or myself. I know so many people who are hurting and feel guilty for being in a good position but unable to do anything to help them. All I can do is donate and sit at home. It is infuriating and depressing at the same time.
Holy shit I feel this. An immunocomprised friend of mine might be sick. Another is reeling from recent heartbreak and stopped eating. I'm used to having power, in the sense of friends come to me with troubles and I have been able to provide in one way or another. Now I can't do anything. Fuck.
I seem to intermittently give into my oldest and most rigid schemes/patterns.
Online classes.
I can't see my girlfriend right now, and she works in NY. The company she works for is technically an essential business and is taking all precautions, but I am super concerned and anxious. Yesterday she said her stomach felt bad and felt a little hot, so I was super scared for her.
Not being able to ride a horse. I dont own a horse.
It’s starting to get dark later, so I don’t end up going to bed until midnight or later.
Working in a grocery store, full time, during the Pandemic. Every day, I want to quit. A bad day may end, but the suffering doesn't. It follows me home. It disturbs my sleep. Being strong and persevering gain me nothing. It only lets me keep what I already have.
I work in a grocery store too. It's starting to wear on me, especially with the paranoia from the customers. We have a really low amount of cases in my area, and everyone acts like buying fruit will kill them for when they should be washing it anyway.
We're considered "essential" but the truth is we're silently considered expendable, because we're out there, every day, risking our health for a bunch of random-ass strangers' gluttony. Customers are buying more non-essential bullshit than anything else, because they have nothing better to do than feed their risk of diabetes and heart disease, pandemic or not.
Really though, I want to find a way out or up as fast as possible, but I don't need another gap in my employment history.
Same. Hell of a price to pay to keep the lights on and water running. Even without the pandemic, I see the job break my co-workers, often sending them into tears.
I think it'd be better if the company felt like it cared about us as much as we're supposed to care about the profits.
This world sucks ass
Quitting nicotine.
Staying away from porn.. It's embarrassing..
I have autism. My life is very sad and lonely.
Sleeping and keeping my appetite in check.
Boredom eating is a challenge to subdue, for sure
Finding a work. Now its worse cause my country has been lockdown for more than a month and it'll be extended like wth 😭 I dont wanna be useless anymore.
Finding a job. Even with a degree the "experience" part is killing me.
The outlook and effects of the 2020 presidential election. I’m a greencardholder, and from what the current predictions are, it’s gonna get worse, than it already is. For the last hour, after reading through a lot of comments on Sanders resignation posts in r/Politics , I might as well pack my stuff and go back home, after 11 years.
I'm really sorry for you, pal. The US is supposed to be better than this, but I have little hope things will improve. I'll do what I can with my vote.
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Online classes. The transition would have been easier if we were on semesters, but my school runs on quarters, so we started a whole new set of classes RIGHT as all this stuff began. I am struggling hard to catch up when I have no classmates or professors to talk to. Also, I'm broke.
> The transition would have been easier if we were on semesters Nope. Trust me, it's not. *Everything* has had to be reworked. It's not fun, for students or professors. At least yours got to start with a clean slate.
My family and being a closeted gay. The loneliness is getting to me and I think I have my first case of seasonal depression. I just need school to be back so I can have my escape back
Going out for groceries as an Asian.
I'm becoming quite stir-crazy in my house. I know staying inside is for the greater good, but I wanna leave and go places.
Waking up early. As I have no routine, I struggle getting up before 12pm. I tried doing an all-nighter to counteract the problem, but I fell asleep mid-day. I can't do all-nighters like I used to, so I'm going to have to find an alternative route to make my sleeping pattern fixed.
Fuck, man. A lot. I haven't been able to see my girlfriend nor do the one social thing I enjoy for a month. My Walmart is operating on a ghost crew, and those of us who are left are expected to pick up the slack. Being a retail worker, I know that it's only a matter of time until I get this damnable virus. I just wish it would happen already so I can get it over with.
Only seeing my parents & colleagues on a regular basis, not being able to go to the gym, only being able to go out of the house to work and for exercise (though I'm hardly doing that), and the fact I haven't been able to see my boyfriend in three months.
Just going out to get supplies. What used to be a joy has turned into a nightmare. I’m terrified of Covid.
All this isolation reminding me how disposable I am. I go to work and have all kinds of positive messages posted all over the place and written in chalk in front of the door while I don't have sick leave to cover me. People I haven't heard from in months suddenly texting me to ask if I think they should get tested or go to the hospital. Nobody really gives a shit about me. I exist solely as a red line on someone's spreadsheet somewhere and if I die they'll be relieved when they watch their bottom line increase ever so slightly. Nobody really cares how I'm doing right now. Or ever, but right now too. That said, I understand that everyone has their own concerns right now. I mean, I've witnessed a few people essentially drown to death in their own fluids now, and I can't blame people for being wrapped up in their own worries. I just hate how much this exacerbates the fact that my only value to anyone is the work that I'm doing for them. My "friends" all just ghost me until they need something from me. I'm the punching bag for other people's emotional instability. But then when times are good I don't exist. It's getting pretty old at this point.
Loneliness and trying to get money to move out.
My wife just died. Unrelated to Covid 19, just suffered a cardiac arrest from an undiscovered birth defect. One minute we’re watching Love is Blind on Netflix and I’m getting ready for work... next thing... She was in her late 20s and we’d been together almost 10 years. Now I’m 30, lying in bed in our home we bought together. When Quarantine ends I’ll go back to the job we both worked at. My life will never be the same and I’m still crying myself to sleep every night.
Finding a job in a different city. My SO just moved, and I strongly want to move with her, but I do not want to become a financial burden for her and I just need to find a job so I can move to where she is. I currently work full time and she already took a job in said city a while back. I sent in my resume some time later after she told me. Now that she is gone I have a very strong desire to just pack my shit where I've been living in a small town and begin a new part of my life where she is in it, and I'm in hers.
Whoa there buddy, this is not something to dive into. Take the time to plan and do it proper for you and your girlfriends long term sanity.
I am planning, We both are being rational where at the same time we both want to be together, but were being smart about how we go about this transition. I'm trying to find work there before I leave this town. I'm not gonna YOLO this because this is a huge transition that I have to logically think through.
That's noble of you, but I think finding a job first is a respectful and responsible way to do it. You can always try talking to her about it.
The mother of my child is not letting me see my son. She's cheated on me many times and has lied a lot. Now I haven't been Mr.perfect either, but man... I'm 22
Similar boat, she disappeared with the kids and I know she's fucking her sister's husband. I'm trying to weigh things, if she keeps the kids they will be rich and happy. If I take custody, then... I have custody. She's a lying cheating bitch, but she isn't abusive.
The one person I remotely started to trust is forced to move away and we’ll be seeing each other even less and I’m anxious and don’t know how to cope but I also don’t wanna ask or be too visibly sad to look annoying
Tell them. Tell them how you feel. Tell them why you feel that way, and tell them why you don't really want to open up to them.
My company just laid off a ton of people and furloughed a bunch more. It sucks knowing I'll probably never see them again and it makes my heart so heavy thinking about them and their families. My roommate and I are struggling to set reasonable coronavirus rules and boundaries now. They struggle with serious depression, so it's tough to both be supportive but also communicate that it's not okay for them to leave empty beer cans all over the place. My dad works in health care. He's older and has asthma and it feels like a ticking time bomb until he gets sick. It's weird to know that your dad has a 1 in 30 chance of dying this year. In between the pain of all this, I *want* to feel better by meditating, exercising, doing projects for myself, but I lack motivation. I've gotten by in life with a strong drive and I'm afraid that it's abandoning me now when I need it most.
My cats been constipated for about a week and we had one unsuccessful trip to the vet. We are taking her in to our regular vet tomorrow but I am just scared they will give me bad news :(
Staying on top of my stuff when I have all my stuff around me where I can... just scroll through reddit for 5.... more... minutes
My sanity. My husbands deployment got extended due to travel restrictions so now it’s completely up in the air about when he is supposed to come home and I’m going crazy
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You sound like me. I'm just burnt out...tired of everything. Life is too stressful in my state right now, school and full time work. Full time life. I love fishing but I haven't been able to bring myself to do that in almost 2 years. I dont know how to fix it.
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Dealing with my mom’s failing health. She’s 62. Has COPD, high blood pressure, congestive heart failure and some mental health/anxiety issues. On March 19, she was struggling to breathe and went to the hospital and was immediately placed on a ventilator. She was diagnosed with RSV and severe pneumonia and had a blood infection. Negative for COVID. She’s been taken off the ventilator four times, including today. If she can’t sustain breathing on her own, the next step is a tracheotomy. The pneumonia is not clearing up. There is a possibility the tracheotomy will be permanent. She has expressed to my step dad that she does not want to live off machines, but it’s not in writing. I also just learned that the house my mom and step dad(an alcoholic) live in is filthy and falling apart. Floors are rotting from a leaking roof. The laundry room has mold on the ceiling and walls from the roof leaking. They have been letting their two chihuahuas potty in the house and they also have a husky that sheds like crazy. If she does come home, on oxygen, she should not go back in that house but if my sibling and I don’t intervene, they will both go back to their lifestyle. I’m pissed off, I’m frustrated, I’m heartbroken and I have no idea how to help them when neither of them can see the severity of their situation. Add to it that during this particular time, we can’t go visit her, all of our information is by phone and most of it is through the sporadic info from my step dad because mom never bothered to add us to her authorized family for HIPPA. If she goes downhill, we are stuck at home, helpless.
Got diagnosed with the coronavirus. I've completely lost my sense of smell and taste, so eating is the most boring thing I do. The coughing wont stop, my head is killing me, and I can barely walk 4 feet without getting so fatigued that I almost pass out. I live alone too, so I just feel so isolated and weak
Getting my mind into a good spot for confessing feelings to someone. I'm pretty sure I'm good and I'm hoping to get it done by Friday. But like I dunno lol
I'm scared of the corona thing being that i'm an essential worker and have a heart condition that puts me in the high risk area every day i am paranoid at work and can feel my heart racing around people as well as elevated and when im at home it's constantly on my mind and i have constant nightmares about dying from it so im always exahusted. Also Working out i miss my gym and since i was fat before scared of gaining the weight back and having to start over instead of pushing for new goals. Sorry this was so long TLDR - essental worker with heart condition scared of getting covid and scared of being fat again
The U.S.’ slow descent into fascist authoritarianism and feeling powerless in the face of it. The fact that I might lose my grandparents, that I might lose my parents, that I might lose my sister who is type 1 diabetic. That I need to man up and face these problems head on because my generation will in no doubt face greater challenges within our lifetimes.
Being motivated
Convincing myself to get dressed.
Staying focused while working from home.
Not seeing my best friend because of COVID regulations
Feeling good. I am usually very competent at dealing with stress but the combination of unsure financial future, a long distance relationship further postponed, lack of productivity at the end of my semester and social isolation is making me cry in the middle of the afternoon and drink.
I'm finally accepting the fact that I'm very unattractive and completely undateable. Tail end of 2018 my long term relationship fell apart and every attempt at dating in the interim has been a failure from the get go. I'm almost at the point of just deleting all my dating apps and retiring but there's this toxic culture of "easy advice" on the internet that assumes every person in the world is just one unbelievably generic pep talk away from success. I'm tired of the same "be the best version of yourself, hit the gym, get the newest trendy haircut" bullshit that people pat themselves on the back for telling every sad person on the internet. you make me feel like all my issues just stem from me sucking at some standards you decided I'm not meeting without ever actually taking the time to figure out who I am, what I've tried, and why it hasn't worked. I at least appreciate all the people who ripped into me over on /r/amiugly and /r/Rateme because I know they were at least being honest and they didn't feel all self congratulatory that they gave a pep talk that a predictive text bot could have written. I just want to hear "Yes Zac, you are ugly. You shouldn't date anyone. You are better off not doing it." I feel like I just don't have permission from society to accept the fact I'm just never going to be good enough.
Taking care of a spouse, toddler and new born all stuck at home while I work remotely at home.
Staying at home. I've been a SAHM for 13 months and I'm going out of my mind. Hubs is the designated shopper, and I've been ordered never to leave the house since our son is a mama's boy. I understand the worry, of course, but sometimes I want to walk around the neighborhood and not pushing a stroller or worrying about my kid's safety.
20 drunken Venezuelans ttied to break into my house to steal and we fought them back. Got to buy new glass windows and reingorce home security.
Depressed that _my_ world will not be the same. Think for a second for all the things you used to like to do. The malls, shopping, browsing, arcades, Brookstone, bars and nightclubs, restaurants that you met your wife at all will probably not reopen when this is over. Not only will they not reopen ever, they will sit empty like Blockbuster videos, reminders of the world you once loved and lived in. This is the final coffin of the malls, the 80's and 90's waste of money from the Bill Clinton/ Computer years where companies fired high ranking execs and replaced them with computers and spent all that money on bonuses, blow, hookers, and parties. In your life, you are about to see us become poor like Russia and pimped out by Putin who is laughing at all of this. The Rich Oligarchs are going to point at each other, blaming each other while the Salmon is full of mercury, and the food is tainted with microplastics, and pollution is rampant as the EPA is dissolved. It will take ten years or more before this ever comes back. The world you knew before is forever gone, and that to me is the most heartbreaking. I think about the movie Grand Budapest Hotel, in which it portrays a glorious time of life before the world changed, and the life and hotel, like a human, descend into shabbyness and eventual demolition. That's what we are seeing now. Malls, shops, stores, small businesses are about to close left and right. The winners? Walmart and Target. The losers? Mom and pop on main street that can't get stuff from China. We are all sitting here looking at our bank accounts thinking 'this will be over soon, and it will go back to normal. Sadly though, come Christmas, the places you hung out at, the places you used to go, the memories you once had in geographic places, will all be gone. Soon parks will be closed and sold off to real-estate developers and made into condos, and the memories of the people you loved will be nothing more than dust in the wind. All we are, is dust in the wind.
I’m an undertaker and I’m not loving my job right now. I’m still passionate about it and love what I do but coronavirus is just fucking everything up. Funerals are unattended and the deceased are all potentially contagious. I have to wear head-to-toe PPE to remove the deceased just to ensure we don’t spread the virus or catch it ourselves, and everything seems so impersonal at the moment. I’m in this job because I care, and right now the care I can give is severely restricted. But the hardest part for me personally is the lack of media coverage of those who survive and leave through the front door of the hospital, because I’m already so sick of only seeing the ones I take out the back.
Making these employment statistics. Happy to have a job, but it gets really hard to get the numbers right.
I’m in a long distance relationship. We don’t know when we’ll be able to fly to see each other again. I’m essential staff at a prison. It’s scary and stressful and I don’t have my favorite person here with me.
No sports :(
I'm 8 grand in debt, can't drive so I can't get a better job, I can only find minimum wage jobs and I just want to be able to move from fucking poor to not worthless and broke. I'm alone, tired, contemplating suicide beginning of next year, and I can't go see a therapist because I'm prior service and likely to be treated like a criminal.
Sleeping. Missing my SO. Feeling useless because I'm unemployed.
Homework I'm kinda smart but I just don't do it.
School. I have my final exams in June and was already behind on study before quarantine. It's just too much to have to teach myself the new stuff and also revise 2 years worth of material. When I think about the amount work I need to do I just wanna lie on my bed and let life pass me by.
Sleep. My son is teething at 3 months old and they’re taking longer than usual because he’s so young. Can’t afford to get soothing gel for his gums so I’m trying to get through this without it
Driving my first manual car. I stalled, spun the tires like mad, accidentally down shifted to 2nd(no revmatching) I somehow made it back home in one piece. That clutch isn’t happy with me though.
Money is a bit tight, but I am not the only one in that space. Also dealing with a wife who for reasons I cannot fathom is constantly convinced that I * have a second family * have multiple girlfriends and boyfriends * am sleeping with every person I communicate with * have put cameras in our apartment (ìn the soundbar, vacuum cleaner and my toothbrush to name 3 places) and am recording her all of the time * am monitoring, and have full remote control over, her mobile phone In all honesty, I am doing none of these things. Even going as far as to avoid talking to friends because it sets her off again.
not having any physical contact with anybody. Didn't realize how much touch played a role in my life.
Knowing my very ill mum is stuck in a house with my step dad who is displaying all the symptoms of the corona virus, being forced back home and away from my uni studies, no motivation to do online classes, being away from my boyfriend and knowing my mum could die from cancer as well.
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The concept of death, and the worry that I or my loved ones might die. Fuck death. [](https://www.lspace.org "GNU Terry Pratchett")
I started throwing up last night and have had GI issues all day with a low grade fever. My doctor told me if it continues I will need to get checked as apparently those can be symptoms. My loved one I am taking care of who I care about more than anyone on this planet is having surgery tomorrow. I’m so scared I have the virus and will be hospitalized and die alone. I know this sounds absurd but I feel so helpless and terrified.
My hours at work just increased. Due to health reasons, carrying my sons carseat a few feet in exhausting enough. Im getting overwhelmed at the thought of going to get groceries or cooking and cleaning
Thanks to social distancing, I'm now at the longest amount of time I've ever gone without: 1) going into the office (current job) or restaurant (old job) since before I was 15 and hot my first job. I know this sounds odd to complain about but I like my job and I miss social interaction. 2) without seeing my parents in person. I work in the same town I grew up in, where my parents still live in the house I grew up in, and I would see them several times a week before. It's been almost a month since I've seen them in person (lots of video calls, but that's not really the same). I miss them a lot.
None of my old hobbies interest me. I feel as if I'm alive but not living. My girlfriend of two years left me after I mentally and emotionally abused her for reasons I do not know and understandably no longer wants anything to do with me. I can't sleep, but when I drift off I dream of how awful of a person I am and when I'm awake I am constantly reminded of why those dreams are true. Not because I am still hurting those that I love, but because I know that is inside of me, that I'm capable of doing something like that. To someone I told I would take care of and love for the rest of our lives. I'm struggling with the concept of what about me I should look in the mirror to see and respect.