Dr Kristopher Lovell

I care for my mam, who has dementia, Parkinson’s, and epilepsy so when we first started getting cases in the UK and we started getting suggestions that vulnerable people would be advised to stay in for up to 12 weeks, I was worried. I didn’t know how that would affect us, how I would deal with getting the time off work, how I would cope with constant caring of mam and no respite. I found the last week before the lockdown very stressful, simply because we were getting suggestions and rumours about what the government were planning, but nothing definite, so I was unsure of what to do, even though everything seemed to be winding down. My boss insisted on our shop staying open, even though we’d had barely any customers for the last two weeks, which compounded my stress. So when they announced the lockdown, I was relieved because the uncertainty was removed. We are five weeks into lockdown now, and I was expecting to be much more stressed and upset, instead I am just bored and irritated,
I no longer watch the news, (or much TV at all), at first because it was too worrying; too much rolling, constant information was sending me into a panic, so I cut back.