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New and ... feeling dread and unease of the times
Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: May 3, 2020 | Replies (38)Comment receiving replies
Hello Sue, thank you for welcoming me and sharing your situation...my “unease” came again, and it usually does in the wee morning hours (usually accompanied by having to make frequent trips to the bathroom)...I can get these feelings in a Target, like today....or in the supermarket.....and a lot of times very late at night.....I usually watch old vintage films, film noirs, sci-fi classics,
(War of the Worlds) 1953 is actually coming out on Blu Ray via Shout/Scream factory..these old innocent films from my childhood give me comfort...but, when I get the “unease” - it’s the worst, in those early a.m. hours of consciousness, horrible scenarios.....being left alone, with nobody to turn to for help....then panic for awhile....
Like many of us, I have underlying health conditions that limit my intake of any kind of “spirits”....the best thing I do, try to keep moving....I also walk, I try to get 7000 steps + a day, practice guitar scales and theory and lean on my poor wife, who also has health concerns....but I feel for the person who has nobody to live with and has to go this alone...I hope this gives you some idea as to what I do.....you seem to be doing well and the right things....I definitely have to stay off the cable networks.....thanks again, and so glad I am on this wonderful discussion group....
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@robbie, Like you, what until recently for me was a once to the bathroom and back to sleep occurrence during the "wee morning hours", (pun intended? vbg?), now finds me awake for longer. Fortunately, I am not fearful or imagining scary scenarios, I just can't get back to sleep for awhile.
I've found playing a computer game or two or reading nearly always allows me to go back for another several hours of sleep. Sometimes, writing in my journal helps. May 1st, I wrote the following and sent it to my family who are living out-of-state:
"Texas, Our Texas, All Hail the Glorious State" : "Fourteen days following our esteemed state governor, AButt’s, declared shut down, today, May 1st, (not April 1st), at sunrise, my friends and I will join the 3 mile line of cars for admission to a nearby state park.
After navigating the overly crowded nature paths, we’ll lunch at our favorite restaurant for elegant inside pasta dining and toast our freedom with a glass of bubbly.
To celebrate Finally being liberated from lock down, we’ll use our X-mas gifted Blockbuster tickets for giant sized movie popcorn before settling down for a rerun of "The Way We Were".
Nostalgia will mandate a stop at our favorite bar for a Manhatten before a little jive time and hopeful moves at our all time favorite Singles Steppin' Out dance hall.
Granted our early morning barbershop hair cuts have given us an astonishing new look but after all, we can be trendsetters, too. Besides, we seriously health compromised seniors will have done our part to support the economy of "Texas, Our Texas". Feel free to sing along at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCxKVpaAI_g
According to AP release on Thursday, 5/31st, “And on the eve of every retailer, restaurant and movie theater being allowed to let customers back in the door, Texas set a single-day record high for fatalities Thursday with 50.
Stay tuned to read the secrets of our successful reopening in “Politics Unleashed”. Our group won’t be around to gloat but “What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play. Life is a Cabaret old chum, Come to the Cabaret”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcLUC7yj7vY
Have a nice day. Oh, and if you have any extra Vit C, Vit D, Zinc and catnip, Precious and I would be obliged. Love and Hugs, Grammer"
Robbie, I think I'll be doing more journaling during those early wakeful hours. This proved cathartic...Smiles