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Hi All
How are things for you all? Currently going through a rough patch, i think isolation has affected me more than I realised it would. I live in Cambridge and j never realised how much contact I had in town, market etc. No longer working due to ill health so pretty much isolated. I have to attend hospital on Tuesday, cr@pping myself to go on public transport but need to do it sooner or later. My anxiety levels are huge. After Tuesaday it will be a major achievement for me but fk me it will be a massive thing. Stay safe 🙂

sory about your anxiety wpj. I wonder if the actual change will live up to that anxiety you're feeling? Perhaps a good chance not.

It's a quite different challenge many are facing in these times. People learned how to deal with isolation to at least some degree out of necessity and now we have to learn how to integrate back into society in various ways and levels. I've personally been very shut down and living a solitary life, albeit speaking to various clients and friends via telephone and Zoom on a daily basis.

Things are changing now though. I could well be still working from home for some time yet but friends are emerging and going to pubs etc. since last weekend in particular. Urged and cajoled to join them, I find myself less than ready to do so. I've taken steps, bought a face mask and acquired a virtual pass to park anywhere in the city free as an essential worker and so mostly avoiding public transport. And yet still, I don't feel like going out. It just feels complicated and it feels easier to avoid it all. At home with my little cat feels like the safest and least anxious place in the world for me.

Another aspect is that whilst not fearing re-inegrating again and know after a day or two it will all feel similar again I'd like to wait and re-emerge in the 'right' way. I don't want things to be the same, I'd like them to be better. This feels like a unique opportunity for change and I don't want to just replicate how life was before March. I want to be patient and get my head around exactly how to do that.