Had a panic attack at work

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Hugs Joe. I don't have any answers for you. I wish I could help with information about when it will end, but I don't know.

I know you're scared and that's what matters.

I'm concerned about your sister. Has she been assessed online for post-partum depression? Have you talked to a doctor or therapist online about your increasing anxiety and despair? These are both very serious issues and I hope you're able to get professional support. You're dealing with so much between your mother's illness, your need to work, and your concern for your boyfriend's wellbeing. Now add in your sister's struggle. That's a lot Joe.

I hope you can reach out to a help line or to your GP / therapist for support.

I will only feel better when I know there will be light at the end of the tunnel. But there isn't.

I've just heard that vaccinated people can still carry the virus and pass it on, so that means there'll just be even more asymptomatic carriers walking around putting the lives at risk of people who can't have the vaccine due to allergy reasons or people like me who are right at the bottom of the list. I am terrified of catching the virus because although I don't have any underlying health conditions I still have the chance of getting ill, as people keep saying that even young people are hospitalised from it.

I was hoping things will start to lift this year but there's still no hope. I've still got to go to work in total fear that I might contract the virus. I've still got to stay away from my family. My mum has cancer and I may never get to cuddle her again.

So, in reality, this pandemic will never end. So we'll be spending the rest of our lives in lockdown to save lives that aren't worth living.

Joe90. You will most likely find that due to your work, that you and your partner have already had the virus as most people who caught it did not go ill with it.
It is only those whose immune systems were weakened at the time who went down with the virus.

I am saying this to put things in perspective as the news always by nature concentrates on the worst case scinarios as it is how they operate and it is how they earn their money.

I would get tested, for sure.

The Pandemic won’t last a lifetime...I think it will end this summer.

It just seems that way though. It seems like there is no end to this. Every time there is hope, something else comes along to deny that hope, and then we're all back to square one again.
Now they're talking about more variants, and that it's going to be even easier to catch. But how can it get any easier to catch if it's already so easy to catch? Is it going to get to a point where the air we breathe is going to be contaminated with the virus even if we stay 100 miles away from each other?

I still feel like I'm just as much at risk of dying or getting seriously ill from COVID as an elderly person. My friend knows a 51-year-old who has died from COVID, and he was very fit and healthy. And apparently COVID can leave permanent heart disease or kidney damage in anybody, even though I haven't heard that on the news but people keep saying it on WP.

COVID doesn't pick and choose who it kills. According to statistics in the UK the group with the less deaths or hospitalisations are children.
I'm about 2 stone overweight, so I suppose that makes me more at risk. I would diet but I am just too stressed right now.

Two stone overweight puts you at less risk then if you were two stone underweight because your body has more reserves to draw on if it needs them.

If masks work, why do businesses need to close?

The UK has been in and out of lockdown in the last 10 months but there's still nearly 100,000 deaths. So do lockdowns really work?

We won't be able to get back to normal until everybody on the planet has been vaccinated. It will take ages to get 7 BILLION people vaccinated, even if 10 million people get vaccinated each day. This pandemic has taught me what a HUGE number 7 billion is.

The UK is in trillions of pounds of debt due to this pandemic. How will they ever pay all that back? A trillion is an ENORMOUS number, too enormous for my small mind to comprehend.

Oh, God...

2 stone is 28 pounds. You’re not obese if you’re 2 stone overweight.

I was about 2.5 stone overweight when I got COVID.

I just have a feeling that I'm going to be one of those unlucky 30-year-olds who's body reacts badly to COVID and I'll be in hospital fighting for my life with a breathing tube stuck down my throat and wondering if I'm going to die. I have a fear of any foreign objects being inserted into me, even if it's saving my life. I even avoid colonoscopies and smear tests because of the fear.

I've been in touch with Samaritans since last March, but now it's becoming tedious. I'm just saying the same things now and they don't know what else to offer except sympathy. But what I need is answers, real news, and reassurance from intelligent people to tell me what possibilities are to come. I try looking for positive things on Google about COVID, but guess what came up instead? "New variants may be resistant to vaccines." *Sigh* It's just going on and on, and if the virus is going to keep variating every time we have a new vaccine for it then this pandemic will literally go on forever.

But if lockdowns are going to take place forever then what will be the point in living? You're born to hide away from a virus until you die of old age. No vacations, no socialising, no exploring the world, no outdoor shopping, no seeing family.

I think this virus was released so that robots can take over the world; so that everyone can sit in front of computers and do everything online. No more freedom. Just dictatorship. It's depressing.

(These stupid emoticons on this forum don't express enough how I'm feeling).

I know quite a few people who have had COVID. Only a couple had to go to the hospital.

Many people in NYC got COVID early on.

I’m really sorry you’re feeling this way.

Joe I'm sorry that this is such a big source of stress for you and I hope you and your boyfriend are ok and don't catch it. As for covid lasting forever, one of the big reasons we are having problems now is because it is still fairly new. Just as we have developed vaccines for it and some treatment, we will continue to learn more and be able to fight it better, letting us return to our normal lives hopefully soonish. I'm sorry you are struggling.

Hello Joe
Sorry to hear your present problem.
I hope you and your boy friend are ok.

Perhaps you can get tested and then vaccinated?
I know they are rolling out the vaccine for some categories of the vulnerable
good luck

I can't get vaccinated until it's my turn. My boyfriend's turn should be next month, when they're going to start vaccinating the vulnerable under 70.

But what's the point in him getting vaccinated if this new strain is going to be vaccine-resistant?

I know that I'm going to get COVID sooner or later. It's inevitable. So many people are getting it, and these are people who are sensible and don't go out only to work. People seem to be picking it up from workplaces.

I now have a relative who is in hospital with COVID. She's 45. She's overweight and has a couple of other health issues. But so does my boyfriend. He is older than 45, is overweight, has slightly high blood pressure and has COPD. What are the chances of him surviving COVID? About 1%. What are the chances of me getting COVID from work? About 99%.
And I will have no family around me to help me through the grieving, and probably only about 3 people allowed at the funeral.

And no, don't suggest I get support from family on zoom because it is NOT the same when going through the grieving process. My world is going to be completely turned upside down.

And this ain't going to end, because of the variants. Why get everyone vaccinated if everybody's going to be dying from the new variant?

The very woman I've been working with all last week is off sick today and I bet it's COVID, as I've worked with her for 3 years and this is the first time I have ever known her to be off sick. And she's a bit of a covidiot anyway, not washing her hands or wearing a mask. And I've been working with her all last week and she doesn't stay 2 metres away from you.

All we know at the moment is that she's not well, she's probably got symptoms, been tested and is waiting for the results. So, there's a 99% chance that it's COVID, if it is then there's a 100% chance that I have caught it (asymptomatic), and I don't need a test to prove it. So it's only a matter of time before my boyfriend starts showing symptoms and becoming unable to breathe. What chance does a person with high blood pressure, overweight and COPD has of surviving COVID? None. And how many people are dying from it each day in the UK? Over a thousand.

So if she is tested positive, then by this time next week I may lose my soulmate.

Nobody still knows why she's off sick but if it is COVID and my boyfriend does get ill then I will never speak to her again. I've been doing my best to follow the rules to stay safe and yet some careless covidiot comes along and practically hands COVID to you.

I take it everybody here is getting bored with my stresses about COVID. In fact I seem to be the only one feeling as stressed as I am about COVID. Maybe I'm the world's biggest worrier.

I was 65, overweight, high blood pressure when I got it last spring.

The disease itself was very mild for me. It was so mild that we sent everyone else home and I ran the office alone for the duration and a week after.

There are reasons to think that Vitamin D helps, but if you wait until you get covid to start taking Vitamin D it is probably too late to help much. I've been taking Vitamin D daily for years and didn't have that problem.