Mental health and CoVid-19

PTH2009 · 27-05-2021 12:32am

31 myself and hoping in the next 2 weeks i can register. id be low risk stage as i have no major medical issues. Id take a vaccine in the morning tbh

Before covid i had an autism assessment booked and hoping ill get it soon enough. Had to go private as the public system is a joke

speckle · 27-05-2021 12:43am

PTH...heard those assements very expensive..did you have difficulty finding one in this country also? Alot of adults being restrospectively assessed these days that were missed when younger.. Good luck whatever the outcome a big decision to go for it.. alot of people seem to get finally get some relief/ self acceptance or an Aha moment if the results are yes. And then can move on in life in ways that suit themselves better and less stressfully.

PTH2009 · 27-05-2021 1:05am

speckle wrote: »

PTH...heard those assements very expensive..did you have difficulty finding one in this country also? Alot of adults being restrospectively assessed these days that were missed when younger.. Good luck whatever the outcome a big decision to go for it.. alot of people seem to get finally get some relief/ self acceptance or an Aha moment if the results are yes. And then can move on in life in ways that suit themselves better and less stressfully.

Atm its hard enough trying to get in touch with the doctor who i had the appointment . My family would be old fashioned and wont accept a zoom/skype call for something so important/ I have learnt from boards.ie about a lot of scam artists out there

This whole pandemic has not helped esp with past memories/doubts creeping back in

SnuggyBear · 05-06-2021 12:51am

I went back to work recently. I was looking forward to it but I've been like a dog to everyone. I had so much time to myself over the last year I was just constantly doom scrolling.
I feel really cynical about the world and people in general. I need to apologise to some people tomorrow for how rude ive been. I hope this fades away once I settle back in but I'm honestly a prick at the minute. I don't even know who I am anymore. The bloody masks dont help either it's so unhuman to interact with people wearing them.
Before covid hit I was always busy and didn't take much notice of what was going on in the world. Now I'm obsessed with all kinds of crap and how the world is changing. It's true what they say ignorance is bliss.

A cup of te · 05-06-2021 8:36pm

Snuggybear, just wanted to say to you that you're not alone on the issue of being a bit prickly with people. I haven't had the issue myself but I have actually had so many people express a similar sentiment saying how they feel really exhausted now when they socialise and they end up getting snappy. They have gone so long without normal interaction that they find they can't wait to get back home when they do go for a day out and they're totally drained of energy when they meet people and have to talk for a few hours. This is not just one person. This is friends and then some colleagues in work too. My mam bumped into a friend of hers who almost ran away when she saw her and then she rang later apologising and saying she just can't cope now that we can socialise again. And this was a previously bubbly person. It is so sad. I think that last lockdown went on way too long and really has done some serious damage to people's mental health even people who never had any issues. My advice would be to just keep pushing yourself out there and you'll settle in again.

I joined a fitness class today for fun and it was the best laugh I've had in ages and so normal. Outdoors and exercising so no masks needed. It was so nice and normal. See all of the smiles again. Hear unmuffled voices. I get you on the mask front. I cannot wait till they're not mandatory anymore. They really make me feel sad me for some reason. I suppose it just signals to me that something is wrong.

Doomscrolling is the worst. Sometimes if you disconnect for a week or two you realise that the Internet is really more like its own little separate world rather than a mirror of the actual world! No harm to turn the WiFi or data off sometimes. Mind yourself.

SnuggyBear · 05-06-2021 10:40pm

Apologised and everything was cool and we had some craic today. I also wiped my youtube history so I'm not reccomeneded endless supply of doom and negativity.
You are definitely right about having to build up a people tolerance. It's taken me a couple of weeks.

Irish Stones · 07-06-2021 8:36am

@Snuggybear,
your situation sounds mery much lime mine. My interaction with people is to a minimum, I rarely speak with my colleagues and co-workers, because I think I have nothing to say and because I feel like they have become stranger to me. Furthermore th emask on my mouth makes speaking difficult, so I tend so speak very little, and the muffled sound and the distance among people makes most words unintellegible and people often say "Sorry, can you come again?".
I don't think I will ever be the same in the future, but from what I see now I am rather sure I won't be the same sparkling person I was until 16 months ago. I don't even want to see anyone, that's why I never get out of home. Let alone travelling, that is the last of my thoughts, opposite to what I used to do till 2019.

SnuggyBear · 07-06-2021 11:41am

I think you just have to give it time. It always seems like you will never feel better when your going through a bad situation. Once we get further along with masks gone and things more back to normal I think you will feel better. You might not the same person again but that's life I suppose. You go through **** and carry on a changed person sometimes for the worse but sometimes better.

Hobgoblin11 · 09-06-2021 11:31am

SnuggyBear wrote: »

I think you just have to give it time. It always seems like you will never feel better when your going through a bad situation. Once we get further along with masks gone and things more back to normal I think you will feel better. You might not the same person again but that's life I suppose. You go through **** and carry on a changed person sometimes for the worse but sometimes better.

I hope to be better but am unsure

20-06-2021 4:27pm

So I think the end of lockdown might be frightening me more than anything at this point. I was bad socially pre lockdown, now I'm in a new place with no real friends. I'm awful at things like dating. Way more anxious than I've been in a long time. Gonna start counseling now but I'm at such a low cause I'm just not confident in myself at all.

anplaya27 · 20-06-2021 4:31pm

Snugglybear - re masks - I'm a Deaf ISL user ( am profoundly deaf).

Dont really care about pubs etc reopening.

Cant wait till masks are gone. I dont think anyone realises how much of a negative impact theyve had on the Deaf community.

Research in several Deaf communities worldwide ( ones I've read are USA, Italy, India and China- so a broad spectrum) has shown a huge spike in mental health issues which is scary considering Deaf people who use a sign language as their first language pre covid were 4 times more likely to have mental health issues and twice as likely to take own life compared to a hearing person.

nigeldaniel · 30-06-2021 8:26pm

In relation to the above I too use hearing aids due to profound hearing loss and a social life never was my thing. I did start sign language classes about 10 years back but quit due to my mood disorder. Incidentally I had my 2nd jab on Tuesday. Have not exactley been in top form either but managing all the same.

01-07-2021 6:23pm

For the first time in months and months I've been gripped by a kind of terror. I truly believed this would end, not soon but that pre pandemic life would be with us next year. Now I actually think this is it. This is the rest or lives. Variant after variant and the battle they create.

Sardonicat · 01-07-2021 6:42pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

For the first time in months and months I've been gripped by a kind of terror. I truly believed this would end, not soon but that pre pandemic life would be with us next year. Now I actually think this is it. This is the rest or lives. Variant after variant and the battle they create.

It's ok Diamonds. There will be variants, just like there are variants of influenza. We dont have a Spanish Flu type scenario every year. In fact, what we are experiencing now is less deadly than that but probably scarier to experience because the public health measures are so visible and ongoing. The uncertainty is very hard to deal with, but try and remember this is nothing that the world hasn't seen before and it will again (hopefully not in our lifetime!)

We'll be OK, Diamonds. I promise.

01-07-2021 6:48pm

Sardonicat wrote: »

It's ok Diamonds. There will be variants, just like there are variants of influenza. We dont have a Spanish Flu type scenario every year. In fact, what we are experiencing now is less deadly than that but probably scarier to experience because the public health measures are so visible and ongoing. The uncertainty is very hard to deal with, but try and remember this is nothing that the world hasn't seen before and it will again (hopefully not in our lifetime!)

We'll be OK, Diamonds. I promise.

Thanks Sardi

Your last sentence has me all weepy eyed here sitting in the car. In a good way. Like if I keep reading it then I'll believe it.
I already do in a rational sense but it's the feeling part that needs to catch up right now.

Sardonicat · 01-07-2021 6:51pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Thanks Sardi Your last sentence has me all weepy eyed here sitting in the car. In a good way. Like if I keep reading it then I'll believe it.
I already do in a rational sense but it's the feeling part that needs to catch up right now.

Don't worry, I get ya. This can be so overwhelming for all of us at times and sometimes all we need to hear is "It's going to be ok,"

leahyl · 01-07-2021 8:41pm

I understand completely where you are coming from. The uncertainty of it it all is actually the worst part. I got my first dose of Pfizer this week and while I was delighted to get it, I still felt it was a bit tainted by all this talk of the delta variant and not opening up indoor dining etc. - I mean I’m a single woman in her 30’s who just wants life to go back to the way it was; no matter which way you look at it, places are open and people are moving around again etc but it’s still not the same. As long as we are wearing masks and social distancing, life is not normal. It’s bloody hard to remain positive! It’s great to have here to come on and rant too!

PTH2009 · 01-07-2021 8:48pm

What a rollacoaster of a week in terms of national news. Vaccines will get us out of this then this new variant is more deadlier and will cause a lot of destruction and then we learn the vaccine might not be enough. Honestly won't have the strength to go through another lockdown. More than likely I'll be vaccinated but that's means very little if we're still very restricted in Ireland

For the moment I'm back in work and it's going well but if there's another big lockdown it's back to the PUP or Wage Subsity (which is OK but it's cutting out a lot of interaction). I really missing the past times like going to concerts and matches. I've went to gigs/events all over the UK and I'll be thinking strongly of going again if there allowed go ahead in 2021 and the Dublin shows are cancelled. Once you're vaccinated you have the EU green cert but as you all know nothing fast happens in this country

Ahhhhhhhhhh so frustrated

dobman88 · 01-07-2021 9:13pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

For the first time in months and months I've been gripped by a kind of terror. I truly believed this would end, not soon but that pre pandemic life would be with us next year. Now I actually think this is it. This is the rest or lives. Variant after variant and the battle they create.

First of all, we need an abbreviation for your username so I shall call you DoF from here on in :pac:

I know it's easier said than done, believe me, but I've found when I actively try to focus on the positives it makes things a tiny fraction easier.

Is there anywhere near you that you could go to for an hour or 30mins to clear the head? Even go for a drive. Just anything to try and break the monotony of it all.

I get that things are still fcuking shìt for people and will be for some time. I was in quite a positive mindset recently but the news this week has floored me again. More delays to reopening and now the cnuts in NPHET saying we're at the beginning of a deadly 4th wave.

Personally, I couldn't go through another lockdown. It almost ended me in December and I honestly think it would push me over the edge. At the moment, I'm trying to do as much as I can to keep the head occupied and even if another lockdown comes, I'll continue to do those things while staying safe.

Try and do what's best for you, keep the head up and keep going. Its not easy, but we will get there.

dobman88 · 01-07-2021 9:18pm

PTH2009 wrote: »

What a rollacoaster of a week in terms of national news. Vaccines will get us out of this then this new variant is more deadlier and will cause a lot of destruction and then we learn the vaccine might not be enough. Honestly won't have the strength to go through another lockdown. More than likely I'll be vaccinated but that's means very little if we're still very restricted in Ireland

For the moment I'm back in work and it's going well but if there's another big lockdown it's back to the PUP or Wage Subsity (which is OK but it's cutting out a lot of interaction). I really missing the past times like going to concerts and matches. I've went to gigs/events all over the UK and I'll be thinking strongly of going again if there allowed go ahead in 2021 and the Dublin shows are cancelled. Once you're vaccinated you have the EU green cert but as you all know nothing fast happens in this country

Ahhhhhhhhhh so frustrated

Its the matches that have done it for me. My brother and I were GAA season ticket holders and it was pretty much the only times we met because of work and living at opposite sides of the country, him in Cork and me in Meath. The football games were a great excuse to meet and stay over night in places we might not visit otherwise.

With regards to concerts, my missus and I have got sick of waiting so we booked a gig for Belfast next May and a gig in Madrid next June. We will be going to both, regardless of restrictions, if they both go ahead.

I dont think the govt realise people need to get back to living their lives. Regardless of how trivial it sounds to them.

Irish Stones · 02-07-2021 8:54am

Deleted User wrote: »

For the first time in months and months I've been gripped by a kind of terror. I truly believed this would end, not soon but that pre pandemic life would be with us next year. Now I actually think this is it. This is the rest or lives. Variant after variant and the battle they create.

Unfortunately you're not alone in this. I believe the same thing.
There won't be a pre-pandemic life again, but we'll be stuck in this new world for the rest of our lives.
I appreciate those that are trying to cheer me up and give me some positive thoughts. I appreciate their efforts, but it seems it isn't working, my bad thoughts won't go away.

TomSweeney · 02-07-2021 10:23am

Sardonicat wrote: »

It's ok Diamonds. There will be variants, just like there are variants of influenza. We dont have a Spanish Flu type scenario every year. In fact, what we are experiencing now is less deadly than that but probably scarier to experience because the public health measures are so visible and ongoing. The uncertainty is very hard to deal with, but try and remember this is nothing that the world hasn't seen before and it will again (hopefully not in our lifetime!)

We'll be OK, Diamonds. I promise.

Exactly, and remember it's more the govt and NPHET over reaction that is causing this, look at other countries around Europe, almost fully back to normal.

Lisha · 02-07-2021 10:24am

Yup, it’s starting to feel like a hard slog… I know I’m lucky in so many ways but being afraid to meet people has played havoc with my mental health.

TomSweeney · 02-07-2021 10:38am

Irish Stones wrote: »

Unfortunately you're not alone in this. I believe the same thing.
There won't be a pre-pandemic life again, but we'll be stuck in this new world for the rest of our lives.
I appreciate those that are trying to cheer me up and give me some positive thoughts. I appreciate their efforts, but it seems it isn't working, my bad thoughts won't go away.

The way I see it, and I am quite negative too, is that eventually even the people that supported NPHET in the past will get sick of it and they'll lose their support and when that happens the game is up - they don't have the money to keep this up, the debt is mounting, eventually fully reopening will be the only option as there will be no credit left.

Sardonicat · 02-07-2021 10:44am

TomSweeney wrote: »

Exactly, and remember it's more the govt and NPHET over reaction that is causing this, look at other countries around Europe, almost fully back to normal.

Personally, I don't believe it is an over reaction. I'm very satisfied with how NPHET have handled this. It's very hard, but its necessary. We have to get ahead with the vaccines before the virus gets ahead of them.

TomSweeney · 02-07-2021 12:10pm

Sardonicat wrote: »

Personally, I don't believe it is an over reaction. I'm very satisfied with how NPHET have handled this. It's very hard, but its necessary. We have to get ahead with the vaccines before the virus gets ahead of them.

Wow.

Just. Wow.

Hope you get through this ok, really.

Ellie2008 · 02-07-2021 12:19pm

Sardonicat wrote: »

Personally, I don't believe it is an over reaction. I'm very satisfied with how NPHET have handled this. It's very hard, but its necessary. We have to get ahead with the vaccines before the virus gets ahead of them.

Ok so say the aim is 80% vaccinated which looks like it might happen in September. What happens in September - schools, then it’s winter so risk & more risk. When does it end. The most frustrating bit is how so many of the deaths were due to in hospital transmission or hospital to nursing home while people were sitting at home unemployed.

There are already solicitors being instructed about nursing home deaths (yesterday’s Indo). There are stories of hospitals lacking PPE, hospitals moving a patient with Covid symptoms into a general ward. Of course mistakes happen but some of the nursing home deaths were in the 3rd wave when lessons should have been learnt.

Sardonicat · 02-07-2021 1:10pm

Ellie2008 wrote: »

Ok so say the aim is 80% vaccinated which looks like it might happen in September. What happens in September - schools, then it’s winter so risk & more risk. When does it end. The most frustrating bit is how so many of the deaths were due to in hospital transmission or hospital to nursing home while people were sitting at home unemployed.

There are already solicitors being instructed about nursing home deaths (yesterday’s Indo). There are stories of hospitals lacking PPE, hospitals moving a patient with Covid symptoms into a general ward. Of course mistakes happen but some of the nursing home deaths were in the 3rd wave when lessons should have been learnt.

I agree with all of those things. But none of them have anything to do with trying to vaccinate more people before the Delta variant further mutates. By September we should be all good and at herd immunity. We've had wave after wave of influenza since 1918. We are ok with that, aren't we? The vulnerable are vaccinated. The rest of us could get sick but recover. Yes, some people die from ot every year, but life goes on. So it will again. Do you have any idea how deadly the Soanish Flu was? Millions of people died world wide. If they had the knowledge, expertise and vaccinations then that we do now, millions could have been saved with adequate public health measures. We are very fortunate indeed to be experiencing a pandemic in this age.

SnuggyBear · 03-07-2021 9:53am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

For the first time in months and months I've been gripped by a kind of terror. I truly believed this would end, not soon but that pre pandemic life would be with us next year. Now I actually think this is it. This is the rest or lives. Variant after variant and the battle they create.

It does seem to be a grim future ahead. It's hard to be positive, the world has changed completely. I can't even see people smile in work anymore. What kind of crap life is this?

Irish Stones · 05-07-2021 9:14am

SnuggyBear wrote: »

It does seem to be a grim future ahead. It's hard to be positive, the world has changed completely. I can't even see people smile in work anymore. What kind of crap life is this?

Most of my colleagues manage to have some fun at work, but myself I have a very hard time to think positive and have a smile.
I only see dark ahead, because I know that we won't ever go back to the life pre-pandemic, the new life will be much sadder, I know that for sure!

Tell me how · 05-07-2021 2:52pm

Irish Stones wrote: »

Most of my colleagues manage to have some fun at work, but myself I have a very hard time to think positive and have a smile.
I only see dark ahead, because I know that we won't ever go back to the life pre-pandemic, the new life will be much sadder, I know that for sure!

You absolutely do not know this for sure. I am living in the US and have been at 2 indoor events in the last month at which there were 20,000 other people. We no longer have to wear masks or socially distance at work.

I am lucky enough to be living in an area where the governor took strong decisive action in March of 2020 and since then the general public have done what they can in staying at home, and for over 12 months, wearing masks and socially distancing at all times in public. And when the opportunity came to get vaccinated, most people took it.
I'm not suggesting you or others in Ireland haven't done this (though I know mask wearing wasn't near as wide spread) but my experience shows that with the right approach, normality can and does return.

The last 15 months has also shown us that just wishing a problem away doesn't make it happen and empty words from politicians or influential stakeholders are of no value if there isn't logic or purpose to them. Humans have faced crisis before, and will again, and normality has returned sooner or later.

Irish Stones · 06-07-2021 2:06pm

Tell me how wrote: »

You absolutely do not know this for sure. I am living in the US and have been at 2 indoor events in the last month at which there were 20,000 other people. We no longer have to wear masks or socially distance at work.
[...]

Humans have faced crisis before, and will again, and normality has returned sooner or later.

I do know that nothing will be like it was pre-pandemic, simply because this crisis will last years, we're far from the end of it, new variants will show up, more fear will be instilled, and it will leave lots of marks and scars behind.
We will all remember these years for the rest of our lives. How could such a heavy memory let us live our lives as they were before? A few habits and measures will remain, and they will make the future life different from what it was pre-pandemic, so it won't be the normality we knew.

The years we have lost, and all the opportunities connected with them, will never come back, and this will make me and other people sad for sure.

A new normality, or any other thing that doesn't look like it is now, will return for sure, but it won't be what I (or others) liked to have.
That's why I say I do know.

jayp2020 · 06-07-2021 8:12pm

Irish Stones wrote: »

I do know that nothing will be like it was pre-pandemic, simply because this crisis will last years, we're far from the end of it, new variants will show up, more fear will be instilled, and it will leave lots of marks and scars behind.
We will all remember these years for the rest of our lives. How could such a heavy memory let us live our lives as they were before? A few habits and measures will remain, and they will make the future life different from what it was pre-pandemic, so it won't be the normality we knew.

The years we have lost, and all the opportunities connected with them, will never come back, and this will make me and other people sad for sure.

A new normality, or any other thing that doesn't look like it is now, will return for sure, but it won't be what I (or others) liked to have.
That's why I say I do know.

You are right that this is a life-altering event but maybe expand your perspective beyond Ireland, really look at what's happening in other countries. We're in a unique situation here in that we've had the most severe lockdown in Europe and we're now maintaining more restrictions than elsewhere. Nphet has taken an ultra-cautious approach, informed by the fragility of our healthcare system. In many other countries things ARE pretty much back to normal. They'll never forget this horrible time but they've moved on. We are waaaay behind.

Tork · 06-07-2021 9:32pm

I also think you could do with spending less time on the Coronavirus threads here on boards. I'm convinced that in their own way, they're doing every bit as much harm to people's mental health as the restrictions themselves. The negativity, doom-mongering, conspiracy theories and anger in there is toxic and needs to be taken in small doses. When boards goes read-only for a day or two this week, there will be some people who won't know how to fill their days because the Coronavirus forums have become part of their daily routine.

Perhaps your colleagues are happier because they're not reading boards?

ClosedAccountFuzzy · 15-07-2021 2:50pm

16-07-2021 3:14pm

For the sake of my mental health, can a mod ban me from this forum? My previously requested ban has gone away since the site update

cooperguy · 16-07-2021 10:34pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117603976#Comment_117603976

History says otherwise. Things got back to normal fairly quickly after previous pandemics. People hit hard by SARS in the last decade also just got on with it but with a better pandemic response system in place. It will be fine

eddie73 · 20-07-2021 8:26am

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117622213#Comment_117622213

I think that the lockdown has effected the positive people harder than the mentally ill. Reason? If you are mentally ill, another day is another day regardless of lockdown or not. If you are a positive person, the lockdown means a restriction on your ambition and zest.

I would not class the SARS as a pandemic. 700 deaths over 2 years in 30 countries amounts to little under a death per day over the 2 years.

Graces7 · 21-07-2021 11:51am

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117603976#Comment_117603976

If you cling to that view then for you it will be true. FNo years have been lost. Lived differently. As others are saying things will be different but still can be good. And we can choose that. ..Old saying.. One man looking through prison bars.. One saw the mud, the other the stars... We choose where we look... The stars are always there. As is the mud of course. I was awake in the night thinking about all this, here in my third year of total isolation. Of how much we have in reality. I for one have never gone hungry or lacked a roof over my head. I can walk. Can see. and so on. I have had fifty years of serious health issues but still life is good. Even now. We will all get through this. We really will .

Graces7 · 21-07-2021 12:18pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117595297#Comment_117595297

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117607787#Comment_117607787

If I remember right, Irish Stones is American.

Here in Ireland we have seen so much sheer courage in all this. So much stamina and what we in Yorkshire I am English but in Ireland over twenty years used to call grit and gumption. In the face of all that covid has thrown at us here. My faith family has lost seven of our beloved members to covid in India working to save babies. We honour their memory and all the suffering here by lifting our faces and telling covid what we think of it and living our iives in every way open to us. Mourn but do not let grief ruin any more,

machaseh · 21-07-2021 12:48pm

My mental health has deteriorated due to covid 19. So I went to the GP and I was after a referral to the public mental health system.

Sadly, my GP informed me that no such thing exists here in Ireland. I am from the Netherlands where we do have that, so it was just yet another great disappointment in this country.

Oh and no I am also not getting vaccinated, I have way more serious issues to attend to such as my mental health. Now I am just taking a cold shower every morning to fix that up. And before the xenophobes tell me to 'go back to where you came from !' no because my employer won't allow me to.

Tell me how · 21-07-2021 1:42pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117641277#Comment_117641277

Surely if Covid is impacting your mental health, the best thing you could do to improve your mental health is to take the biggest step towards protecting yourself from Covid.

I'm double vaccinated and that has massively increased my confidence in going about my daily business and starting to enjoy going to shows and sporting events and other things like eating out again.

machaseh · 21-07-2021 1:48pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117641567#Comment_117641567

But I already do those things if I wish to do them. I am not afraid of covid, as I am also not afraid to die.

Now I do have to say I am generally not one to enjoy a night out in a big packed club, going to festivals or sporting matches and the like. Didn't do that much before covid either.

Tell me how · 21-07-2021 2:31pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117641597#Comment_117641597

This is a thread to help people with their mental health so I apologise in advance if I appear to be challenging you, it is not my intent to attack you directly or anything.

But in your second to last post, you said that your mental health has been affected because of Covid, in you last post you said that you are not afraid of Covid. Whatever the reasons that Covid has impacted your mental health, whether it is risk of you getting it, or impact of others getting it, the path to putting Covid behind us requires as many people as possible in getting vaccinated. We all want the same thing, surely we should do what we can to bring that about.

GoneHome · 23-07-2021 12:01am

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117641277#Comment_117641277

Not getting vaccinated is really going to help you here bud 😣

machaseh · 27-07-2021 12:17am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117641950#Comment_117641950

What is affecting my mental health is the abysmal government policy, not the fact that covid is affecting others (I couldn't care less) nor the risk of it affecting me (which is minimal, and even if I would die from it because I happen to be the unlucky 0,000001 percent so what).

airy fairy · 27-07-2021 12:35am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117666183#Comment_117666183

First time posting here, been reading though.

Do you care about the risk of YOU infecting someone else, someone that would be vaccinated, but immunocompromised where vaccines may not work well and they die because you infected them?

Do you care about or do you think you'd feel guilty that you may have been partly responsible for this person's death? By not playing your part in society? If you're not worried about dying, then why not help others that do care, and get vaccinated?

27-07-2021 10:05am

Not tryna tell you how to run your mental health thread but using it as an opportunity to guilt/ridicule/pressure people into medical procedures you would like them to undergo ain’t it, chums.

Tell me how · 27-07-2021 2:14pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117667064#Comment_117667064

Don't know if this was aimed at me but I'm not going to apologise for a second for advocating what medical professionals say we should do in the case of a medical emergency.

Not even the tiniest fraction of an apology.

And I'm not going to stop advocating to try to help as many people as possible to stay safe so that some form of normality can return either. To advocate based on educated, informed medical advice is not attempting to guilt or pressure anyone but to inform them.

machaseh · 28-07-2021 11:11am

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It is indeed depressing if you suffer from mental health issues due to covid and it takes so long to get appropriate care in this country yes. Fully agree.

Mental health and CoVid-19

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