CoVID-19 Support Room- Update

@ASilentObserver

I hate how the media is all doom and gloom. I cannot find about who recovers, good deeds, anything like that except for like the last 30 seconds on local news. We need more like that. I'm trying to block myself from the media but it's there. I try to go into my meme and fandom groups and the bad news is in the feed. I just want this to go away and go back to normal

I can't shake the overwhelming feeling of dread and anxiety about this. I'm really having a hard time controlling my emotions about it. This is the third I'm time I've cried today and I'm having trouble sleeping. I'm so scared. Keep trying to rationalize my way out of the emotions. This just is so terrifying. It's the bigness of it and all the unknowns.

I dunno if I want to be comforted or comfort others :( very scary situation. May God have mercy on us. Please text me if you wanna chat 🤗 I'll be happy

Im of course, in quarantine. Its hard, my anxiety is so high Im actually finding myself contemplating if its anxiety or me dying a lot more than usual. I feel trapped and like Ive lost all control. Being stuck is a lot worse than the fear Of getting Covid-19. I need people to distract me and cheer me up. Being alone is scary because I can only think, theres nothing and no one to help me. Im scared of losing my mind, my chest is always hurting and my jaw and neck are so tense, my stomach is all woozy and I feel like Im 13 again. All my process and all my good has been thrown away in a matte of seconds. I just feel so out of control, lost and trapped. Anyone else?

@ASilentObserver

Great work Obs and 7 cups team. We really needed a room to vent about this global pandemic and the difficulties being in quarantine! Previously members were not allowed to talk about it freely in other rooms and were given mutes and warnings for the same, which was really suppressing and distressing during such anxious times.

Glad you took all the feedback and considered users needs in these hard times and made sure their worries are heard!

Hello my dear 7cups usee family.

I totally understand the level of panic and anxiety which probably everyone one of us are going through. I won't sermonize anything. All I wanna say or rather humbly request is that all of you and I must abide by the guidelines/directives of the respective governments. Perhaps for this once, unity is not our strength.

Just try to see the better side of things.

Keep yourself updated but there's no need to delve deep into the details.

Music and sitcoms might just come in handy as detachment and distraction.

GOD BLESS US ALL. THIS TOO SHALL PASS.

Out of curiosity, is it possible to make a support group for Healthcare workers?~

@ASilentObserver

I'm just finding it all so, so difficult. I'm just recently recovering from a really difficult time with my mental health (or at least thought I was recovering). I quit my previous job with the intention of finding new work as a receptionist as my old role was just too stressful for me to be able to deal with what with my really ill mental health, and I was just starting to feel like I was healing from the breakup of an almost 8 year relationship to someone I was engaged to. I had my plan, I was going to the gym, jogging, exercising lots, and now I'm housebound, terrified, can barely get out of bed, crying all the time. Everything in the world just seems so awful and sad. So many people are dying and I know I am so lucky, but without being able to go out and see my therapy friends and go the gym and use those coping mechanisms I'd built up I am just slipping further and further back down the rabbit hole, and the self harm and suicidal urges are just getting stronger and stronger again when I thought I had just got them under control. I have no idea how I am going to do this for the next however many months 😭

I am so worried about all of this COVID-19 stuff, I have a compromised immune system and worry about my health to begin with. To top it my mom has stage 4 COPD and I can't see her.

Life feels so surreal and I just feel like crying all the time.

I've been feeling very stuck lately. Stuck between emotions, stuck in my apartment, in my relationship, and in this lifestyle that was suddenly forced upon me. Usually I would go to the gym just to get out of the apartment and not have to think for just one second, but the gym is closed, and it's so much harder to find the motivation to workout or do anything here in my apartment. It feels like it doesn't matter as much right now. I'm angry lately, and frustrated and upset. I just want to break out of these feelings and there are some moments I can, but mostly all I can do is just sit in my feelings and do nothing about them. It's making my boyfriend more and more frustrated with me as well and I hate to feel like I'm pushing these feelings into him and making this harder for him than it needs to be. I just feel like these feelings have stuck themselves to me and I can't shake them off because there's nowhere else for them to go in this small apartment.