Simply..PPSD....

20/5/2021

I am suffering from PPSD. Post Paandemic Stress Disorder (I just made that up!).

Are you?

The symptoms are a kind of malaise, feeling not depressed, just a bit low. A lack of energy or enthusiasm as in not getting your hopes up too much. In case you get disappointed. Again. A friend cancelled an outing, the weather forecast said warm and sunny and it was cold and wet, I was planning a long awaited trip to the city and they reinstaated restrictions......and so on. Nothing too serious but a kind of weary resignation was my response.

A loss of joie de vivre might sum it up.

Those are my symptoms, yours may well be different if you think you have this condition that is.

I write from an area with three cases and zero deaths and can begin to think 'post-pandemic'....

The wisteria has lots of buds this year.

9 Comments

Mary

21/5/2021 05:20:29 am

Can certainly understand your feelings. The lockdowns in the UK have been much more restrictive than anything in the US, and for you, living in an area with very few cases, it has to be hard to keep dealing with the back and forth restrictions. Hope that some light (sunshine included) is in your near future and that there will be more steps forward than backward when it comes to opening up opportunities for you and others to get safely out and about.

Holding out hope for another breakfast at the Mackintosh at the Willow and maybe tea and a scone at Kember & Jones. :) 🤞🏻

Freda

21/5/2021 01:42:46 pm

I suspect that cold and windy weather, and a bout of bad hay fever played a part in my feeling low Mary, but everyone is feeling some effect from the situation. Glasgow is still out of bounds but it can’t last...

Sheena

21/5/2021 06:07:52 am

There is a feeling of it all dragging on and on and hopes rising only to suffer another setback. I wonder how people coped with the frustration and uncertainty during the six long years of the Second World War. The cool spring means the tulips have been blooming for weeks, which is marvellous, but adds to the sense time is progressing very slowly. Nothing for it but to go back to the greenhouse and admire your lovely terracotta pots, Freda.
P.s. Morrisons do have some lovely plants .

Sharon

21/5/2021 07:09:07 am

Hi Freda. I understand how you’re feeling. I am very nervous and anxious about the return to ‘normal’. I worry that I’ve become institutionalised and won’t have the wherewithal or energy to function beyond my house and garden. As restrictions are easing here in Ireland friends and family are in contact to make arrangements to get together and panic has set in with me about these events. I have a niggling feeling I’m living someone else’s life! I agree with Sheena, nothing for it but to return to the greenhouse and I’m going to copy you and have a glass of wine there. Hopefully all that earthiness going on there will ground me. 😄

Freda

21/5/2021 01:51:41 pm

I see what you mean about institutionalised. Waiting to be told what we can and cannot do. And we have become used to that! Thank goodness for the garden and the odd glass of wine!

SusanG

22/5/2021 10:33:13 pm

Thank you to Freda, for bringing up the topic.
I, particularly resonate with your comment, Sharon.
(A small example is that for 18 months, I've worn clean but un-ironed clothes. I've realised that at present, sometimes the idea of the effort of ironing something in order to go out, feels insurmountable. So, I think ' I'm using this as a subconscious excuse to stay in my nest.)
I'm just going to venture for an outing once a week, to somewhere familiar, peopled but not overpopulated, and kindly, and explore a little further each week.

Freda

21/5/2021 01:48:12 pm

Yes, dragging on and on.... I am sure we all try to be positive but it is a strain! Though as you suggest this may be nothing compare to 6 years of war. Tulips the greenhouse and garden had a lovely distraction. Thanks for your comment Sheila.

Freda

23/5/2021 01:18:08 am

SudanG what a very good plan! Do you know Julia Cameron’s idea of Artisr Dates? That’s what your plan sounds like. Enjoy!

SusanG

23/5/2021 12:25:17 pm

Thank you, Freda.Yes, I remember Julia Cameron's book but it's good to be reminded. I think ' defining my days out as an Artist's Date will help.

Simply..PPSD....

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