Managing feelings and depression associated with the impacts of COVD19

Kimella
Community Member
I have always struggled with my mental health. The one thing that was getting me through day to day was our wedding next weekend and European honeymoon. With everything being cancelled and having to push on through with no direct contact or hugs from friends has been the toughest thing ever. As our wedding date gets closer, I am finding myself even more depressed and seeking chocolate/unhealthy foods for comfort, which turns into a viscous circle of feeling down about myself. Is anyone else in a similar situation with COVID19 impacts?
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Elizabeth CP
Blue Voices Member
Blue Voices Member
I can't make any brilliant suggestions but wanted you to know your feelings are normal. Having everything you've looked forward to stopped so abruptly is extremely hard. I had been struggling with MH issues exacerbated by a series of serious stresses. I had reached out for help & with support from my psych had arranged a number of things to help including respite from my caring responsibilities and practical help with some tasks I was struggling with. Of course now all of that has been stopped. While my situation is nowhere near as bad as cancelling a planned wedding & honeymoon I have fond it hard so I can only imagine how difficult your situation is.

Dorothy1
Community Member

Dear Kimella,

How I understand, I would have felt so desperate in your situation. having gone into so much effort to organise these wedding and honeymoon for it to be cancelled or postponed must be so disappointing. It is certainly different but different people from my family in France had planned trips in Spain and in Thailand which of course have been cancelled and they too are very depressed thinking that they could have been out in the sun instead of being confined at home.

In France, they do "apero skype" 🙂 Which means having pre-dinner drinks with your friends through skype! I think that it is an excellent idea and have actually offered my friends in Australia to do it tomorrow night! I know it is not physical contact and it will not replace it but it is some sort of social activity 🙂

I cannot give you any advice regarding chocolate and unhealthy food, honestly we all do that when we are stuck at home. I have never eaten so much chocolate myself!

Could you do something on what should have been your wedding day? Could you have a photo shoot at home? a nice dinner, some pampering? just something to make this day special! 🙂

All the best

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