Home 4 Days And Going Nuts!!!!

Sapphiregal · ‎04-08-2019

I know I am not alone with these feelings, but, I just have to say I don't know how much more of this I can take. Our weather has been rainy, cool, and dreary for a solid week. NO SUNSHINE. That alone depresses me. Now, throw in the fact that we are staying home (social distancing.....what a term. SMH...) and everything closed except for grocery stores.Well, I can always hope the sun will come out tomorrow!

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september · ‎03-09-2010

Yes, it is hard! We had a few rainy days this past week, so I sympathize.

The past few days have been cool but sunny, so I've gone out for long walks both days. Spoke to other walkers from the appropriate distance.

More rain coming for us this week.

AuntG · ‎03-09-2010

Sorry you are feeling some distress by Day 4. I'm guessing you are a fairly social person - I'd think extroverts are feeling it more than an introvert like me. DH and I are missing a nice meal in a restaurant.

SandySparkles · ‎06-13-2010

@Sapphiregal wrote:
I know I am not alone with these feelings, but, I just have to say I don't know how much more of this I can take. Our weather has been rainy, cool, and dreary for a solid week. NO SUNSHINE. That alone depresses me. Now, throw in the fact that we are staying home (social distancing.....what a term. SMH...) and everything closed except for grocery stores.Well, I can always hope the sun will come out tomorrow!

You are certainly not alone, and your post touched my heart. It is very challenging adjusting to our unprecedented predicament. I find that I am getting those mundane tasks that we usually procrastinate about, completed.

Our weather has been beautiful this past week, but rain is expected for the next 10 days here in my neck of the pacific northwest (no surprise), so that is going to present an even greater challenge, but I welcome it.😊

I am sorry this is having such a profound effect on you. Please know you are not alone, and that I hope you are able to find a way to feel better soon🤗

I understand how vital it is that we all do our part, and hope people that have not yet heeded the warnings from the CDC and local municipalities, recognize their responsibility as we battle this pandemic together-UNITY. Hang in there!!!😊

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

Bhvbum · ‎07-18-2010

Pack a picnic, get in the car and drive to a good parking place. Yesterday it was at my small train station.

Last week I ate next to a river, today, at a parking lot with cherry trees blooming, etc. It is cloudy today but it actually is brighter outside.

wilma · ‎03-13-2010

It’s definitely difficult to adjust to the restrictions. I’ve been home now for 7 days. Trying to keep occupied doing various things, but today was the first day I really felt down in the dumps. I think it started with the fact that my morning routine of going to mass & singing in the choir was missing. Watched mass on TV but just not the same.

Going to be a long ordeal for all of us. Need to remember life could always be worse.

HLP · ‎04-02-2015

@Sapphiregal wrote:
I know I am not alone with these feelings, but, I just have to say I don't know how much more of this I can take. Our weather has been rainy, cool, and dreary for a solid week. NO SUNSHINE. That alone depresses me. Now, throw in the fact that we are staying home (social distancing.....what a term. SMH...) and everything closed except for grocery stores.Well, I can always hope the sun will come out tomorrow!

I love cloudy,rainy days, could stay in my house for a year and not complain, in fact I like to be home. I have a computer, tv's, washing to do, house to clean, nieces to text, and a sister to call and friends. I worked out of the house all my adult life, and I love home.Quit complaining, I just saw a niece I loved die with cancer, now the sweet boy next door, early 20's just bought the house, just got married, tells me he has bone cancer in his leg.Do you see how sad your lonliness is (SYH}.

Love my grandkids · ‎11-24-2013

@Sapphiregal I wonder why you are shaking your head at the term "social distancing." I think it is very clear as to the meaning, even tho some fools are ignoring it out there! What would you call it instead? Just wondering.

Annabellethecat66 · ‎03-12-2010

@Sapphiregal You rang the bell with me when you said, "No sunshine". I cannot stand dark (no sunshine) days.

I don't mind being home. I never go out on the weekends normally (today I had to get medicine).

I do love the interaction with people for a little while. Then I come home to my house with my two cats and I'm good.

I think we are just (for the most part) people who enjoy some interaction with each other....it varies.

So, I saw a show where the psychiatrists were talking about depression. Depression runs in my family. I have had several family members commit suicide.

Anyway, that's why I was watching the show.

The Dr was from England. He said (paraphrasing) "In England we have a lot of dark drizzle days so I thought perhaps that was why it seems like depression has increased so much".

Long story short (I know...hard to believe from me...right). Anyway, he said he conducted an experiment. He had each person join some kind of club that studied or enjoyed something the person had always been curious about or wanted to learn, etc.

He said some joined a bird watching club, some joined people in gardening and so on. Some wanted to learn how to knit or crochet so they joined a club where there were groups learning and teaching.

He said he noticed one by one these people who'd (some) had taken very strong medications for depression not needing it or at least decreasing the amount of chemicals they needed.

At first he thought it was just a fluke because it was going against everything he'd learned and studied. I mean, this was his 'thing'. This was how he earned his living helping these people.

Then he couldn't deny it any longer. Some just needed way less depression medicine, some just needed adjusting, some even got off of it altogether.

He said it was because these people were all loaners. They lived alone, never joined groups of people and THOUGHT they liked it that way. But they were depressed.

The bottom line, he said, is the humans need some kind of interaction with others. Not everyone needs to join a club or be around people every day. But what they do need is some kind of interaction with others every few days. Not just on the phone but physical interaction.

I'm in that category. I know if I couldn't get out and talk to strangers (I especially love strangers) I'd shrivel to nothing. I love meeting people I don't know.

It's nothing for me (in the past) to walk up to someone or a group and say, "Hello, I'm Linda (my name) where do you live...(whatever).

I've never been mistreated. I don't expect long conversations. Just a hello how are you? This weather is terrible, isn't it?

Things like that. Maybe 3 minutes tops then moving on. Not all day, not every day.

You sound a little similar. I know I'm extremely outgoing...I try not to be a pain in the tukuss...I don't think I am.

People come up to me all of the time thinking they know me....they don't but they think they do.

Things will get better I know it, then people like us can get out of the house and enjoy life.

Azcowgirl · ‎04-10-2012

Another introvert/ homebody here....
Staying home is my thing...Diving into my stockpile of crochet,and sewing projects and yard work .DH is very much a social community involvement type, and is having a more difficult adjustment.