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Hey @Timberwolf can you update here? I can't remember everything we watched... we binge watched Peaky Blinders, we are slowing working through The Ranch... what else?

Sound like you are in the best place you can be to weather the storm hun. Look after your mental health as much as your physical health. I will post some resources in the appropriate forum and tag you. @Dulcet

Yes Soulie, you have to take extra care do you know if there are cases in your area at all? I know the Netherlands has around 3k cases in total at the moment.

Thanks for checking in Sweet Hawk. The anxiety is kicking my ass too, glad I already went to the docs and got some pharmaceutical support before this all kicked off. Prior to the virus I was having anxiety for other reasons.. Now it's just all piling up. Glad you are still working and able to keep work for your people. Many aren't so fortunate.

*hugs Tika* you can hope they get it under control before it gets to you but yeah hope for the best but prepare for the worst as they say

Oh honey I am sorry you are going through it - I know you lost your uncle end of last year. Who else passed away? I am sorry if I missed a post. Love and strength FM.

@icewlf that sounds tough! I guess I am lucky, I have been working from home on and off for ages and I just have Dom and the animals who are very cooperative and good and not distracting me when necessary. My recent discovery of a really good quality noise cancelling headset has helped a lot with meetings though. A must have I now realise. I am not sure about physical contact to be honest. I like a hug when I am feeling down, but just from Dom. I am happy not touching friends lol. What can I say, I was made for social distancing. I seem to be able to get all the social connection I need from this kind of thing... sharing texts with you guys. I am the social equivalent of an air plant or something. @fox you know I want details about this gentleman.

Thank you for sharing @fox. Being away from your babies must be tough but you know they are in good hands. I am sure there was an element of not wanting to contribute to the panic that informed your decision to travel, I know I am constantly weighing that kind of choice. Even the decision to buy some groceries made me feel guilty, and I had rationalise it by explaining to myself that I am just buying what normal people have anyway - I am not panicking or hoarding or being selfish. I am simply acknowledging that I may not be able to rely on food delivery and restaurants being as smooth and conveniently at hand for a few weeks, and it isn't selfish to stock up with SOME provisions. I have gone from a zero pasta owner to a 2 bags of pasta owner. It doesn't make me a crazy prepper.

We are okay so far in Thailand. They are talking about closing more things down. Schools, entertainment venues etc. I think @fox is having a 14-day self-quarantine moment having travelled recently. Maybe I can lure her here to explain.

I don't know about you all but when I am afraid or sad I come here, just to look around and see if there is anything to cheer me up and distract me, or maybe someone around to share my fears and / or tell me everything will be ok. It makes me sad that The Northlands isn't the sanctuary it used to be, but that is just because we got busy and grown up and the internet got noisy. But anyway, I wanted to make the post I secretly came here hoping to read... to reassure you The Spirit of the Northlands is still going strong. We are all here, holding hands in the digital dark - caring for each other - and WyldFyre and Ogre are looking out for us from another realm. And I am here, your Goddess waiting for you to creep home for a hug. I see you Northlanders... parents afraid for your kids, I see you kids afraid for your parents. Me? I'm afraid for my mum, my pets (if Dom and I got quarantined) and a little for myself because I am not ready to die yet despite having thought about ending it more than once in recent years. Nothing like an external threat to put things in perspective. Most of all I am afraid of losing Dom my most darling wolf - and we have been through some shit recently and I pondered leaving, or at least taking an extended break... but again, I didn't want to lose him, I just wanted him back. So if you pop in looking for some comfort, please leave a post here. Whether you think it is armageddon or a media conspiracy, let's hang together a while - like old times. Love you all, and miss you something fierce. Hirondelle

Awesome - I love fish... I am slightly obsessed with this YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3Kk8tvhHkWMMfKBb0q0X9g

He was a really lovely human.

Sorry I only just saw this. Complicated eh. You want sthg so bad and then it happens and it is still a punch in the gut. But yeah, the only way forward is through. Love you.

lol yes - and they trump the laws of physics even

it is how you distance yourself from it all with "and caused me" actually "which upset me, so I hit him" would be more honest, lol - but "which caused me" is better... like you were simply victim of the laws of physics

This is my favourite sentence "they slashed out goalie to knock the puck loose, which upset me, and caused me to hit that player and sending him flying"

Love this post so much

I'm so sorry Forest Mage

I am so sorry you are going through this @Dulcet but grateful you came here to vent. I know you have explained how you are in a slough of despond (literary phrase for it ) but I am going to tell you (speaking from experience) that you have to DO sthg and you have to start REALLY small. Don't wait for sthg to change. It won't, it really won't. Get up an 40 mins earlier than you have been getting up and go for a 30 min walk, sthg fast enough to lift your heart rate. Then come home and sit and meditate for 10 minutes. Just do that. Every morning, no days off. Then when that becomes comfortable make the walk a bit longer, and the same for the meditation. Make steps like that, with faith that while you dont know where it is leading it IS leading somewhere. People get paralysed because they look at an end goal and it seems impossible - that is because here to THERE is impossible without all the tiny steps in between. It is the tiny steps that are your concern right now, look at them. You have no idea what the end goal is - it is a suprise, waiting for you. Just take the tiny steps. And come back and tell us about them.

We are all rusty AF. I know I am, I think @foxhas still been dabbling

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