Mental health and CoVid-19

No, I don't think you understand what you are saying or what is being said back to you! Nobody said you are in immigrant, I said you are a guest of this country, you are not a Citizen and you do not have exactly the same rights as any Irish person as you point out yourself you can't vote in Government elections and if you break the law you can be deported. However you completely miss my point, which I am not surprised about. You are Dutch, you live in Ireland, base common decency and manners would dictate that you do not come onto an Irish forum and spout vitriol and hatred about said host country, or comments such as 'I couldn't care less if old Irish people die'.

I would recommend not staying seeing as you clearly hate it here, as you say, you've the pick of another 26 countries to go and live in and moan about not being as good as the Netherlands!!

You may have learned English but you clearly haven't learned to read properly, I didn't say I was Irish, I said I was an Irish citizen, this is a right granted to Foreign Birth's of Irish descent. I was born in England and reared there, my parents were Irish and so as myself and my Irish wife live here, I became an Irish citizen, I can't speak Gaeilge but then my wife only has a little and she was born and reared here. I'm sure you're fluent! LOL! All of this does however make me more Irish than yourself!

Again with the Xenephobic rhetoric, this 'Brit' isn't trying to influence your decisions, as you say yourself about not caring less about the people of Ireland, I couldn't care any less about yourself. I'm just saying it's clear you hate it here and don't care for the people so perhaps you'd be happier moving on.

I do find it laughably ironic though that someone whose parents were Irish who you term a Brit is giving out to a fellow EU citizen about their disgusting attitude towards the country and it's people!

If it helps with the Brit bashing rhetoric, the wife and I moved back here as soon as we could after we found out 51% of the country were total morons!

I feel sorry for you, you're obviously living in a seriously negative world right now, blasting your host country and it's people with bile isn't going to help you and it's becoming apparent that you're not going to help yourself, just moan you can't get someone else to help you on your terms.

Good luck.

I'm late at replying, I apologize.

No, I'm not American, I'm Italian and live in Italy. But I love Ireland and, like someone said, for a weird reason I have a passion for Boards.

Luke O Neill now talking about post Covid ptsd. How about post Covid euphoria for a minute? I’m buying a new watch!

The mental health effects of covid could take a long time to overcome and some Government members are to blame for 80% of it

Constant doom and gloom, predicting this and that, not giving any hope etc

Lockdown has shown how easy it is to implement. One day you're working the next closed in a flash

The way the health service is, it's going to be manic esp in the mental health sector. The easy route of 'take these tablets and you'll be grand' will be rampant

Boards and social media have a lot to answer for too. Some posters seem to have become addicted to trawling the interwebs in search of material that would confirm their worst fears. That HAS to have done damage.

Mother of god, everything is 95% open now, yes you have to show your covid vaccine cert and that's all you have to do, what the hell more do you want

God that’s hard I’m very sorry. Your house mate needs to help you in some way. If he won’t help you with food then you will have to leave your room. Even if you got food ordered in you need fridge access etc. makes more sense for him to help you. I’m sorry he isn’t helping you. I hope you get better soon and feel ok…. Could someone drop supplies to you…?

It’s silly though as if he left food out for you you could stay in your room and it would be safer for him all round. So sorry he is adding to your stress. It’s not what you need.

Hang In there everyone

This place can be horrible at times but remember it's only words and a screen at the end of the day. We're all here for each other and no way do we mean harm. We all agree and disagree but at the end of the day it's a way to express our views and opinions.

Go to your grave/crematorium etc feeling happy. Go out and do whatever makes you feel happy

YouTube is similar in that if you watch one negative video it will keep reccomeneding you similar stuff. It's hard not to go down a negative black pill worm hole. Anytime it reccomeneds me these now I tell it not to reccomened me it.

I've cut out news completely from my life and its much better. Ignorance is bliss as they say. I only come here the odd time and I'm usually posting negative stuff I so have to check myself on that.

I really had to cut out all this stuff and just focus stuff I actually enjoy.

Yeah I know. It's just that it has A LOT of disturbing content.

But I'm not saying that everyone has to do what I'm doing, just trying to help anyone who may be exposing themselves to negative stuff and hadn't thought about cutting it out.

If its personally good for you then that's another thing. There's no one-size-fits-all solutions.

I am so happy to finish my self-isolation tomorrow! Really looking forward to hugging both my parents tomorrow when I see them for the first time in 11 days!

I'm currently in a near to desperation condition.

I'm not Irish and live abroad, and in my country, despite the very good vaccine uptake compared to the EU average, most restrictions are still in place and it doesn't seem to me we're seeing the end of this. They keep moving the goalposts every week. Last summer they told us that once we had reached 80% of vaccine uptake, most restrictions, starting from the masks, would have been lifted. Well, it didn't happen, in fact they introduced more restrictions and rules, and now that things are going worse, they're thinking of something more. And now the minimum vaccine uptake has been moved to 90%, then it will 95% and eventually 100%. And even then, it won't be enough.

It's easy to understand that this thing is endless, we will go through relatively good periods, possibly in the warmer months, then through dark times again, for years to come.

I've lost interest in just everything. I had a couple of activities that were making my life bright and interesting, but I cannot do them anymore, and this is slowly killing me, to the point that nothing else catches my attention. I had a heap of things to do at home, but I keep postponing them, waiting to find the motivation to do them, and the motivation isn't showing up.

This is what some experts called it "languishing", as one of the consequences of the post covid, a mental condition that shuts all interests off.

Well, this is me at the moment, and I fear in the future as well.

I was in Stockholm a few months ago and it was very normal. In England I had a similar experience. They’re both reasonable options and there may be others. What I really want is for Ireland to go back to normal as this is my home and I’ve always been happy here. But from my perspective things are really going the wrong way. There is no longer any kind of strategy to get out of restrictions and with vaccine uptake as high as it is it’s really hard to see where we can go from here; we either accept abnormality or we accept that hospitals could overrun until and unless the government does its job to improve them (not that that is unusual in winter in Ireland!).

What’s happening now scares the hell out of me. The people have been convinced to blame each other for the spread of a virus as if it is somehow a moral failing that the restrictions aren’t really working that well. The government keeps adding arbitrary and ineffectual restrictions to our daily lives and many people agree with them citing “something is better than nothing” which just isn’t good enough when we’re talking about curtailing quality of life. While the people point fingers at each other the government quietly works to extend emergency powers that give them massive power to shut down what’s left of our normal lives at the drop of a hat and somehow questioning that garners accusations of conspiracy theorist or worse.

Sometimes I don’t feel like I recognise my home or the people around me anymore and it’s depressing and suffocating.

So I have no idea if somewhere else will definitely be better but I feel like I’ve been watching the things I love about Ireland die a slow death over the last two years and on more than a few occasions that dark, depressing thought has nearly swallowed me whole. If it weren’t for my partner I’d likely have already moved but the practicalities of jobs and responsibilities makes it a slow process. Fingers crossed that I’ll be proven wrong, everything will turn around quickly and I can somehow pick up from where I left off almost two years ago.

The acceptance is a big thing. I couldn't accept how much the world had changed until lately. I think you just havr accept it and focus on anything you enjoy and ignore covid as much as you can. If someone talks to me about cases and variants or whatever I tell them I'm not interested in hearing about it.