Coronavirus

[MCat22]

I just signed up with HealthUnlocked as I've lost contact with a lot of people I normally interact with due to work shutting down. I've got social anxiety so I don't normally interact all that much, but being on lockdown has really made me feel isolated. I've got two girls with me and my husband--who has cancer and is still going into work! But, mostly, I feel by myself. Hoping to feel a little bit of community around an issue that has plagued me all my life. I've suffered from depression and anxiety since I was a kid. I feel like I never really participated in life because of it. I don't have all the interests from my youth that other people have because I was just surviving instead of truly living. It makes my bad conversational skills that much worse with nothing to say! Mostly I just want to talk about how I feel. That's been the major focus of my life.

[Agora1]

Welcome MCat22, nice to have you on this warm and friendly site.

I think you will find it a safe place to come and talk about how you feel

and what your journey has been like. In return, you will find that you are

not alone and that we all have really been surviving instead of living the good life.

I'm glad you're here with us. xx

[MCat22 in reply to Agora1]

Hi Agora1, thanks so much for the warm response. I hope to get to know more people like yourself who understand me. I find it hard to maintain friendships with people who aren't depressed or who don't have some other mental illness. They just don't get me and are sometimes fearful if I tell them my struggles. Glad I found this site!

[Jozey17]

Welcome to the site! We are all here to receive and give one another support. I, too have felt isolated. I am here for you if you need anything of you need to talk.

[MCat22 in reply to Jozey17]

Thanks Jozey! Hope to get to know you better through this website!

[Mary-intussuception]

Welcome xxx

[wiserlady]

Hi, am in a similar situation to you. Am working, running my businesses, keeping in touch with staff and clients online, but having to stay at home, and on my own most of the time. I wish I had a husband and kids there a lot, would be great !! Take a day at a time and we get through it.

[Coffeegirl1979]

I can definitely! Relate too the nothing too say ..or conversate..my marriage is always on the rocks cuz I dont do anything. So nothing too say or add too a convo ...I have little or no real interests...I dont do much outside the house besides walk with earbuds on or go grocrey store ...I dont have any friends too talk yoo ..well any friends at all ..so I ruin marriage by over thinking..complaining ..too him ..cuz theres nobody else ....I'm in this small apartment 247 ....8 hours alone when hes at work ....

[wiserlady in reply to Coffeegirl1979]

You can chat to me if you like - people need friends - I avoid the local ladies around here because their idea of friendship was to totally ignore me for months or years and then want to chat to me just to moan about something and then disappear till the next time that happens. A nice decent friend who chats about happy and normal things too is great.