Pandemic - Health Effects

sampa · Jun 18, 2021

Have you others you know experienced stress or health issues during the pandemic? Just recently within the last couple of months I found out I'm clenching my teeth and had to have device molded for nighttime clenching. I've never had this in my life and now I'm hearing its very common, even at the age of 18yrs old. I've experienced greater stress in my life and can only attribute it to possibly the transition from remote to full capacity in person return. I can't imagine it would be dating, haha.

Love First · Jun 18, 2021

Yes the pandemic but more specifically dating is also causing me to clinch my teeth.

GospelS · Jun 18, 2021

God's grace, I'm doing very well. Nothing changed for me.

Sketcher · Jun 18, 2021

I lost weight since I'm eating less and eating better. My lunches have improved drastically since it's easier to go to my fridge than the drive-thru, and I am not constrained by portability needs.

The elimination of my commute took away the most stressful part of my daily routine. And much if not all of that saved time went to more sleep.

On top of that, since I usually have no drive ahead of me to stay awake for, I have less of a reason to drink caffeinated beverages (though a shift change is bringing that back).

Working from home is better than I imagined.

SigurdReginson · Jun 18, 2021

Well, about a month and a half ago I got rushed to the ER with stroke like symptoms. Turns out after vigorous testing that it was an ocular migraine (just a headache). Apparently they happen in similar hemispheres of the brain, so they can can have similar symptoms. Stress can be a killer, they say.

Thankfully I'll know it's just a headache if that ever happens again!

sampa · Jun 18, 2021

SigurdReginson said:
Well, about a month and a half ago I got rushed to the ER with stroke like symptoms. Turns out after vigorous testing that it was an ocular migraine (just a headache). Apparently they happen in similar hemispheres of the brain, so they can can have similar symptoms. Stress can be a killer, they say.

Thankfully I'll know it's just a headache if that ever happens again!

I'm glad you are ok and that its just a headache.

ReesePiece23 · Jun 19, 2021

Health-wise I've not even had so much as a tickle - not until today.

Yesterday I had my first Moderna jab, and I'm feeling a bit out of tune: low-key headache, mild fever, a night of weird dreams, lethargy, and my shoulder feels as if it's taken a short ball from Shoaib Akhtar.

But ALL mild. The shoulder cramp is literally the worst of it. Not bad at all for an otherwise excellent eighteen months. I saw the opportunity early and exploited it.

Tretind · Jul 1, 2021

There are always quarrels and misunderstandings in families, and I think that this is normal, because we cannot misrepresent the same. But during the global pandemic, everything has become much more complicated and I really want you to read the article How Does a Pandemic Destroy Family Relationship? it discusses how a pandemic is destroying family relationships. Let's take the pandemic and family relationship seriously, as during the pandemic, the number of divorce filings soared around the world and this is a very sad picture.

bèlla · Jul 1, 2021

My family and I were fine. We managed well. But I saw a lot of struggles elsewhere. Especially pertaining to isolation and homeschooling. Many had to put routines in place they never established. Home had a new meaning. They were always busy. Slowing down was a blessing for some and a source of stress for others. Their 'escape' was gone.

~bella

HisGraceAbounds · Jul 1, 2021

I've had health challenges to deal with, and my mental health has suffered during the past 18 months or so. Going back to 'normal' is causing me much more stress than I imagined. I think I would prefer to keep working remotely. I worked much better and was more productive. I think it was a mistake to open up so soon.

ReesePiece23 · Jul 1, 2021

HisGraceAbounds said:
I've had health challenges to deal with, and my mental health has suffered during the past 18 months or so. Going back to 'normal' is causing me much more stress than I imagined. I think I would prefer to keep working remotely. I worked much better and was more productive. I think it was a mistake to open up so soon.

Although I focused on the positives in another thread, I'm not going to lie: any niggly little problems I had going in to the pandemic (which I was completely on top off in 2019) got magnified significantly over the last 18 months. The cogs are crunching into gear right now and I DO feel a bit rusty.

I was in a bar by the Thames last Saturday (or whatever day England played) and I was experiencing light paranoia with an overall sense of reluctance to talk too much. It'll pass in time, but I'm very aware of myself at the moment. And the impostor syndrome is rearing its ugly head too.

It's positive though if I choose to attach a positive emotion to it. I'm AWARE, which means I can focus on what I need to work on with clarity. And that IS positive.

But if I decide to attach a negative emotion to it, then I'll be licking my wounds and retreating to that dreaded comfort zone. And I've worked WAY too hard over the years to avoid succumbing to that behaviour. I don't want to slip back into it.

So, when breaking it down to the basic elements, it's a simple choice. What follows next is exactly what my signature says.

HisGraceAbounds · Jul 2, 2021

I think everyone was in too big a hurry to get back to 'normal' that they didn't consider they are being played. Now it's vaxxed/un-vaxxed and the segregation of that trickling down through society. In about 8-12 weeks, a new surge of some new variant is going to push lockdowns again because people are not queueing up as hoped for the 'vaccine', and getting everyone injected IS the goal.

At their best, humans are frightened, reactionary, and inflexible. Add 18 months of what we've just experienced, then turn the populace loose just long enough to give them a taste of 'normalcy', then RIP it away from them. Right NOW, when folks are 'happy', they are not ideal to be around. If the WHO and CDC keep playing 'covid variant bingo', then you're going to see some real issues with mental health this coming Fall/Winter.

"If you want to break a man's will, first you need to break his grip on reality"

ReesePiece23 · Jul 2, 2021

That's why 90% of us in the UK have taken the jab. We want the powers that be to run out of excuses. If after ALL is said and done nothing changes THEN we flood Downing St with protests. I will be for sure, but my protest will be delivered slightly differently. I know JustSomeBloke will be there in his own little way too.

It's not about obedience, it's about building a case. In my opinion the real victims here are our NHS. That's primarily what I'm concerned with.

Personally, I think the politicians are keen to move on and forget now. Especially after some of our unsavoury 'recent events' involving a certain health secretary... As screw ups go, HIS was a shocker. It's not the sort of thing the Tories are going to want to remember in a hurry.

JustSomeBloke · Jul 2, 2021

ReesePiece23 said:
That's why 90% of us in the UK have taken the jab. We want the powers that be to run out of excuses. If after ALL is said and done nothing changes THEN we flood Downing St with protests. I will be for sure, but my protest will be delivered slightly differently. I know JustSomeBloke will be there in his own little way too.

I shan't bother protesting. The time for protest was 6th May 2021. My tactic was to vote for anyone except Conservative, Labour, Liberal, and Green, because I knew they all supported the lockdown tyranny. And if there were no other candidates available, I would spoil my ballot paper. If the pro-lockdown parties had received a good hiding in the May local elections, we probably wouldn't be where we are now. We've had more than a year of moved goalposts and broken promises. More than a year of restrictions. And yet the majority still voted for them. The only encouraging signs are that more recently the Tories got booted out of their safe seat in Chesham and Amersham, and they didn't win in Batley and Spen either.

ReesePiece23 said:
Personally, I think the politicians are keen to move on and forget now. Especially after some of our unsavoury 'recent events' involving a certain health secretary... As screw ups go, HIS was a shocker. It's not the sort of thing the Tories are going to want to remember in a hurry.

It's all gone full-on Animal Farm. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than other animals. The G7 politburo were allowed in without restrictions, UEFA officials get special treatment, the health secretary broke his own restrictions, executives won't have to quarantine. Basically, if you're rich or part of the ruling elite, the restrictions don't apply. If all of that doesn't turn people against the government, then I don't know what will.

And having the Home Secretary encouraging people to grass up their neighbours for flouting restrictions was a despicable policy that could have come straight out of Stasi era East Germany. So it was rather bizarre to find that someone had followed her advice, and grassed up her cabinet colleague, the Health Secretary. I wouldn't be at all surprised if he's back in some other role before too long. I have heard that Boris makes decisions based on feedback from opinion polls and focus groups. If true, then that would explain why he didn't fire the health secretary immediately, as he didn't yet have the data. Although perhaps more worrying is that he wasn't able to judge for himself that the majority of the public would be outraged, and want him fired immediately.

ReesePiece23 · Jul 2, 2021

JustSomeBloke said:
I shan't bother protesting. The time for protest was 6th May 2021. My tactic was to vote for anyone except Conservative, Labour, Liberal, and Green, because I knew they all supported the lockdown tyranny. And if there were no other candidates available, I would spoil my ballot paper. If the pro-lockdown parties had received a good hiding in the May local elections, we probably wouldn't be where we are now. We've had more than a year of moved goalposts and broken promises. More than a year of restrictions. And yet the majority still voted for them. The only encouraging signs are that more recently the Tories got booted out of their safe seat in Chesham and Amersham, and they didn't win in Batley and Spen either.

It's all gone full-on Animal Farm. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than other animals. The G7 politburo were allowed in without restrictions, UEFA officials get special treatment, the health secretary broke his own restrictions, executives won't have to quarantine. Basically, if you're rich or part of the ruling elite, the restrictions don't apply. If all of that doesn't turn people against the government, then I don't know what will.

And having the Home Secretary encouraging people to grass up their neighbours for flouting restrictions was a despicable policy that could have come straight out of Stasi era East Germany. So it was rather bizarre to find that someone had followed her advice, and grassed up her cabinet colleague, the Health Secretary. I wouldn't be at all surprised if he's back in some other role before too long. I have heard that Boris makes decisions based on feedback from opinion polls and focus groups. If true, then that would explain why he didn't fire the health secretary immediately, as he didn't yet have the data. Although perhaps more worrying is that he wasn't able to judge for himself that the majority of the public would be outraged, and want him fired immediately.

Y'know, I think it's more important NOW than ever to take a leaf from Elon's book and make SO much money that you can treat the world as your own personal playground. If a human did it YOU can too. All you've got to do is take the "I have one shot at life" mentality and work so hard that you don't have the time to notice what's going on around you. You may or may not make the dough, but at least you'll have a jolly good time along the way. Even trying is a win.

As it is, I probably WILL vote again, but it'll be with my feet. I'll get citizenship somewhere else and then I shall post my British passport back to Downing St; we'll call that my divorce. We've been getting ripped off for decades anyway and it'll get worse when we're having to pay the tax for all of Boris' (delusional grandeur) Brexit stuff years after he's disappeared.

With the way things are going Boris will be out of office in a month. Then it'll be Patel's reign of terror. Her continuous boot licking has made it more than less certain that she'll schmooze herself in. Good luck to her, I hope you enjoy falling on Johnson's sword.

It's sad in a way that I feel this way. I still believe London is the greatest city in the world and I love my fellow countryman. But recent events have made living here unviable. When I think of the sacrifices people have made, and THEN think about that Tory scumbag, I shudder. I could have cried when I heard about the story of Ollie Bibby - and it takes a LOT to upset me.

I feel nothing but indifference towards Johnson now. I can't even be bothered to hate him.

Wow, that post was an emotional roller coaster. Anger, love, optimism, despair and indifference - it had it all. It's funny how replying to one single post can trigger so many different emotions. It's like a living aftershave commercial. Reese La Piece, Je taime la peanut butter Eau de Toilette, the new fragrance.

bèlla · Jul 4, 2021

ReesePiece23 said:
Y'know, I think it's more important NOW than ever to take a leaf from Elon's book and make SO much money that you can treat the world as your own personal playground.

The shift is here and the window is closing. Don’t miss the boat. I agree with bolting. Staying on a sinking ship is madness. That’s why we’re flying the coop.

ReesePiece23 · Jul 5, 2021

bèlla said:
The shift is here and the window is closing. Don’t miss the boat. I agree with bolting. Staying on a sinking ship is madness. That’s why we’re flying the coop.

It's funny you should mention boats because for three nights I had exactly the same dream about the sea coming in and swamping the streets, making manoeuvring impossible. So I'd head for the station and get the train.

On the forth night - before bed, I said to myself "make something or do something that makes it possible to cross the water tonight, don't just give up."

Lo and behold, I had the same dream again - only this time I had a friend with me who said that the drink I was drinking can double up into a grenade once you've finished it.

So, rather than build something, I threw the grenade and caused the water to spray upwards, thus clearing the road.

Not only do I have my solution, but I may have just invented a new drink.

jacknife · Jul 5, 2021

I'm a medical worker this has been nothing but stress, also i caught covid back during halloween, it sucks would not reccomend the experience.

bèlla · Jul 5, 2021

ReesePiece23 said:
So, rather than build something, I threw the grenade and caused the water to spray upwards, thus clearing the road.

Not only do I have my solution, but I may have just invented a new drink.

You were warned and understood the necessity of taking action. Few are clueless in the literal sense. They see the handwriting on the wall. But they assume it'll never happen or is further down the road. When it falls upon them they're ill prepared like the 5 virgins lacking oil.

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