coronavirus

[car10001]

hi

wasnt sure where to put this but wondering if you live with people that are known to get sick and/or someone in your house ever has to isolate and you like the independence and/or don't want to take the chance of quarantine possibly lasting longer if another person in your house gets it, what would be able to be done to reduce exposure if you live with people known to get sick and the property you live at doesn't have a detached flat with its own bathroom and kitchen to reduce if not eliminate contact with others.

do live with people known to get sick and because you live with them you may have to quarantine as well and if you do then quarantine might last longer and don't want to take that chance and the property you live at has only one bathroom and kitchen and is small and doesnt have a room out back with its own bathroom and kitchen

going off the sa health website if someone has to quarantine and/or tests positive its better if you make arrangements for that person or the rest of the house to stay elsewhere during that time until they test negative. or even the person who likes their independence and/or doesn't want to quarantine longer than they have to and take the chance of theirs lasting longer especially if a household member catches it.

if you paid for a month accomodation in cabin costs would add up pretty quick.

just wanted information to keep in mind incase its ever needed at any time.

just at age where am wanting own space (part time to start with) and dont want to be affected or quarrantine seperate so the posibility is not there of having to face longer and start the 14 days again

as for the shed am dependant on the local mens shed that am going to because the place that normally live at doesnt have a big enough yard to add a extra shed right out back out way and am realising that you have to pay your own way and its only fair that you do and dont yet have a big enough deposit to buy property and dont want to rent as it costs as much in rent and also the posibility is there of having to shift stuff and youre limited to what you can do to place.

the only current options for a shed and space of your own may have to close and thats one reason for being concerned.

what can be done to reduce exposure if you live with a at risk person preferably in a way that doesnt cost too much money, what ways are there ranging from cheap to expensive

just prepared for anything

please reply soon as you get this

thanks

[PamelaR]

Hi Car10001

Welcome to our forums. You've asked a lot of questions about what to do regarding quarantine, whether to stay or go and live elsewhere, alternatively send the affected person elsewhere. These are very difficult to answer and unfortunately I'm not able to. My heart does go out to you, I understand how you are feeling.

Anxiety is affecting a lot of people at the moment. You're not alone in how you feel. There are many out there I'm sure who asking exactly the same questions. For me, I'd manage the situation as it arose. Make decisions based on what was happening at any given point in time. Trying to predict what will happen in my case in these uncertain times is extremely difficult. Perhaps that is a bit like putting my head in the sand, but the scenarios of 'what ifs' is enormous. I feel sick at the thought, so I make a conscious choice - I do not have to think about this now because nothing is happening to me. In times like now I revert to a list of cognitive distortions that were given to me about 10 years ago when I first recovered my childhood memories. These cognitive distortions included:

• overgeneralisation - I'm a great one for over generalising.
• discount the positives - nothing is happening to me. I'm actually okay.
• jumping to conclusions by mind-reading and/or fortune telling - I could readily do this in the current situation. However, I've learnt to manage my fortune telling.
• magnification or minimisation - I can do a lot of both of these. However, when I know I'm spiralling into a severe anxiety state, I begin to look at my thinking patterns and slowly make different scenarios that aren't so magnified or minimised.

These are just some of the things I've learnt to help unhelpful thinking during periods of uncertainty.

Hope some of this may help you through.