it is social media, no one gets a chance to breathe anymore, your connected 24/7, messes with your head, I was walking dog other day, women on her phone, her dog was otherside of field never even knew
So sorry go hear this ST, I sincerely hope that she's ok and she gets the support she needs from her family and the NHS. The unseen psychological effects of the covid outbreak this year are simply astonishing and quite frankly incalculable. I stopped watching the news months ago as it was relentless covid this covid that, can't do this, can't do that, can't go here........ etc etc. So apart from trying to get more exercise, outside preferably, try and stop watching the news. If it's something mega important just happened, you'll read about it on the font of all knowledge...... THE BBS! Stay safe and well everyone
It isn't just social media, it's the actual media too. In the past there was a news bulletin which was easily avoided and a newspaper which you had to choose to buy. Now you have constant news programmes on the news channels repeating news over and over, go on Google and you are bombarded with news stories. Open up the internet on your phone and random news stories are there on the new tab page etc. Turn on any of the terrestrial channels and you will see either a news programme, A political programme, or a general programme which makes sure it mentions the news.
They reckon a human needs 11 interactions with other humans every day to stave off mental illness. We are all vulnerable.
Awful news ST. In a similar vein Mrs T Had just started back after knee surgery when she was furloughed. Luckily we have the caravan so after lockdown she took the dog there whilst I was at work,but she’s been in a bad place to the point that we don’t have the news on or anything to do with covid, she’s been full of woe since the latest restrictions. I sincerely hope that your friend and her family together with anyone else suffering get the help they need, I can’t imagine being in so much despair, if anyone on here is struggling please talk you’re not ever on your own even though you may think that you are. And lads, the days of being told to man up are gone, we’re the worst for it, talk to your mates.
Yeah. That's my point. The opposition are too mind. On Friday I went for a pint with my mate who'd just been to a friend's funeral. Sat a separate tables a yard apart. I couldn't have gone in his garden round the corner and done the same thing.
It generates advertising revenue. It's all a form of click bait and like monkey's pressing buttons in the need of a fix, people keep doing it. Aside from when you actively need to know information, just don't watch it. Just stop watching it. Easy.
I would rather listen to my mates ramble on and on for hours and hours than one final 20 minute eulogy. If anyone knows any folk struggling then a call or text asking "you ok pal?"can make a heap of a difference. Btw Due to the on going coronavirus situation Andy's Man Club do online group meetings.
*Sigh* If both were allowed that would be too much mixing at the moment. It isn't a difficult concept to grasp. If one thing is allowed some people seem to think that everything important to them should be as well. That would mean no restrictions and no control at all over the virus.
We did shield the elderly in their own homes...for 12 weeks. It shouldn't have been stopped, although there was nothing to stop those with their own support continuing with it of their own accord. Clearly lives were saved by doing that, although it's impossible to say how many.
We didn't do it properly though. We asked them politely to shield themselves whilst forcing everyone else to and provided absolutely no support to enable them to. There should have been a massive recruitment drive for carers but there's been nothing
During the 12 weeks I had an elderly person turn up at the Hospital asking for hearing aid batteries. I gave her a full box which is more than I was supposed to. She said, "Is that all I can have?" and turned her nose up at me. I just shrugged it off but couldn't help thinking that she was risking a dose of Covid turning up at the Hospital for something she could have done over the phone.
My point was she should have been shielding. I could have added she was an ungrateful old so and so. You tend to find the elderly have the worst manners.
So sad to hear about your colleagues partner ST. Here's hoping she is able to rally and eventually end up in a better frame of mind. In the early 70's I worked with a lad of around 22. He wasn't academically gifted, but to please his father ( a very domineering Vicar), under extreme duress, he agreed to go to University. After around three months of taking his place, he had a total nervous breakdown and had to return home to Doncaster. His Dad was big mates with Doncaster's Medical Officer of Health and as part of his recuperation, the latter offered him a temporary job where I worked re-Health Department. Because I was fairly outgoing, they gave me the job of showing him the ropes and supervising him. After around a week, it was apparent that getting him well, was going to be a long job. Every lunch time he went out and came back reeking of ale with his shoes and trousers covered in mud. He would only talk to me and when he did, he spoke in a whisper behind his hand. When I could understand what he was saying, it was apparent he was full of hatred for his Dad. I never found out what happened to the lad when his contract ended, but as a young man myself it left an indelible impression as to how fragile our mental health and well being can be.
It's hard living in the shadow of a big personality. You just have to accept your own limitations. It took me a few years to realise I wouldn't be as brainy as my father and wouldn't be as good at football and cricket as he was.