Seriously, how is your anxiety level right now?

[LuckyCharms]

Mine's pretty high.

How are you doing?

[Zoonart]

1. Pretty fracking high LC.

Just taking deep breaths.

[LuckyCharms]

3. .

[Demonaut]

2. logically high, using precautions and making sure I have the essentials

[RandySF]

4. Starting to rise

I feel like it's closing in around me.

[First Speaker]

5. I'm right there with you...

...I'm 66, no lung problems--thank God!--but high blood pressure, and no medical insurance. No matter what happens, I can't afford a hospital. So I'll have to sweat it out, if I get it, in my little efficiency apartment, alone. So yeah, I'm anxious, all right...

[MLAA]

29. Good luck, keep washing those hands! I'll send you some good energy! 🙂

[First Speaker]

45. Thank you!

...your thoughts are appreciated...

[Poiuyt]

6. I'm OK, but my wife is in the high risk category

She's afraid to leave the house, and I think it's wise that she stays home.

[MLAA]

28. My husband is high risk

I’ve grounded him 🙂. We are stocked up. I wipe all the surfaces with Clorox wipes. I don’t want to risk losing him just to leave the house when he doesn’t have to. I go out to get prescriptions and wash carefully when I get home. I figure if we get cabin fever we can walk around the neighborhood or just take a drive but not get out anywhere.

[madaboutharry]

7. I feel a lot of anxiety.

I am really fighting it.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. It feels like we're waiting for the alien mothership to land.

[yonder]

34. That thought has crossed my mind more than once.

Like we're in a movie and we know something is going to happen but aren't quite sure what or how it's going to pan out.

[msongs]

9. some anxiety. my life keeps away from crowds already nt

[bamagal62]

10. Extremely high.

I keep waiting to cough. Or, for someone in my household to cough.

[Rorey]

11. I've grown fond of my lungs

Was hoping to be able to continue to use them for a few more years.

I'm not going to lie. I'm getting increasingly nervous.

[defacto7]

12. You should put up a poll.

[mountain grammy]

13. I'm so lucky. We're camping in New Mexico

Still online and otw tv so not completely disconnected but surrounded by nature which is really helping the constant anxiety.

[MLAA]

30. I'm envious!

[mountain grammy]

48. Best thing was some time in Mexico

Breathing trump free air.

[MLAA]

51. How about bottling some and sending it to me.

You could make millions selling it!

[mountain grammy]

75. Ha great idea

I did buy a Corona beer bottle opener to send to my dumb trumper brother in law. only cost a buck 😊

[liberaltrucker]

57. Perhaps it's time for us to head to Canada for a few days

SO and I are a 2 hour drive from the Peace Bridge from Buffalo, NY to Fort Erie, Ontario.

[mountain grammy]

74. It's a great feeling

Mexico has its problems and it’s poor but the small border towns are a treat friendly and trump free. Love ❤️ it. Come summer hopefully we’re going to Canada.

[uponit7771]

14. Moderate because of DU, tons of info here and there's steps to take starting with testing

[frazzled]

15. We all are freaked, but ...

[juxtaposed]

16. very, very, low. When you spend your life on the edge this is nothing. Looking for 2-liter bottle

s of purell?

[LuckyCharms]

19. No, but I have multiple chronic illnesses.

I'm probably fucked sideways if I get this thing.

I'm not doing too much different from what I always do.

Except that I'm trying to stay the hell away from people.

[sweetloukillbot]

17. Borrowing the wife's Klonopin high... nt

[LisaM]

18. It's high. I fear for my vulnerable loved ones.

My mother,.recently widowed, is in her 80s. She is still in her home (with plenty not assistance, and probably not exposed, but still). My boyfriend is in the healthcare field. He's not around patients, but he is in clinics every day. One of my best friends is recovering from cancer surgery and is having a difficult recovery and my only means of information is from her brother on Facebook Messenger. I live in Seattle, so I keep waiting for some other shoe to drop. And I miss my dad like crazy, but he lived a good, full life into his eighties and it seems selfish to be depressed when so many other awful things are going on.

[BusyBeingBest]

20. Worried almost as much about the economic fallout for my family members

as actually getting sick.

[Nay]

72. That's me, BBB. Sonny Nay works for himself and work has dried up. DIL works

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for a business that depends on crowds -- most of their events are going to be cancelled. We have the $$ to keep them afloat, thank the goddess.

As for us? Both in high-risk categories, although we both seem to have decent immune systems. Who knows what would happen if we caught this shit? They are about to close the schools here, so there will be less contact with other kids through grandchild. I have stopped going to the gym.

I can't say that I feel overly nervous, but only that I wish all this stuff would be over with. The stress seems to be in the waiting. And knowing that Dipshit can't punch his way out of a paper bag.

Update: They've just closed all schools in the county until the end of March.

[BusyBeingBest]

76. Yes, I have the same situation with my son and DIL--

they have a business and I'm sure their customer traffic is down. I'm not high risk, nor my husband, but he can't work from home and so it's just a waiting game to see if he or any of his coworkers get sick, although I think he has enough leave to get us by for a couple weeks. Beyond that, if the company has to shut down for any length of time, we don't know--it's not a work-from-home option for any of them. My other son is a teacher-in-training, waiting to see if they close his school soon--he lives with us and I dread thinking about what he's bringing home with him with all those gross snotty kids, LOL. Good luck Nay!

[Jarqui]

21. Anxious

Have two daughters.
One doesn't do well with regular flu.
So I'm very anxious

I'm not 100% self quarantined but close to stocked up and close to it. Working from home. Minimizing any ventures out of the house.

[Marie Marie]

22. It's been pretty high since Trump took office and yet it still seems to increase daily.

[BamaRefugee]

23. At age 68, I'm not anxious but I just named a beneficiary for my IRAs, began sketching out a will,

and began taking everything out of my storage locker to sell.
Not morbid, I would just hate for someone to have to come in and take care of all this stuff if the worst happens.
I’m in a high risk group. I live in a very high risk locale. I do a high risk job.
Que sera,sera.
Nothing I can do but see what comes to pass.


I think riding motorcycles for 55 years maybe gives you a different outlook on The Grim Reaper, since he goes along with you on every ride.

[rufus dog]

24. Anxiety not much, anger huge

I see an asshole in MAGAt hat and I might knock them out.

[larwdem]

60. I fell the same way.

They gave us this shit show. Never has it bin this bad in the USA before.

[Ms. Toad]

88. Right there with you.

Not anxiety, but anger.

Also frustration that on Monday I was fighting wtih people who ought to know better to put signs out encouraging our students to follow common sense disease prevention stragegies (we can't becuase it might panic them; we shouldn't have to tell adults to wash their hands, etc.) - then we went from 0 to 100 mph with schools closed on Tuesday.

More frustration that I still can't get friends to understand that this is not blown way out of proportion.

And impotence - I'd like to so something to help ease the pain of financial hardship because of job losses/cutbacks in hours, the lack of school lunches during this time, etc.

[Mossfern]

25. Very very high!

I'm 71, and even though I take great care of myself HIIT training, eating right I'm higher risk. I lost significant heart muscle due to a major heart attack 25 years ago - still have a coronary artery aneurysm, I already have ground glass nodules in my lungs that are being monitored and am slated for minor surgery (D&C) for the 24th of this month.

I stopped going to the gym as of Tuesday because I don't trust others to monitor themselves, and finally, I think, convinced my husband not to go there either. Somehow he doesn't understand the gravity of the issue even though he watches MSNBC for hours including coverage of the pandemic.

I'm honestly considering renting an apartment for a few months and taking my three cats with me if he doesn't get it. How often does one have to remind their spouse to wash their hands?

Yeah, I'm over the top anxious!

[centrarchus]

26. High

I'm over 60 with Coronary Artery Disease and high blood pressure (both treated and under control). I'm concerned and anxious.

[mtngirl47]

27. Anxiety on two levels...

Worried about the virus every time I sneeze or cough...wiping things and washing my hands constantly.

Nearly paralyzed with fear about my business. I have a tourist business and I recently spent down my cash for an unexpected expense. Now I face the possibility that nobody will travel this year. The last recession kicked my ass and I'm afraid this disaster will wipe me out.

I feel helpless because I can't do anything to effect what's happening. Last week reservations were rolling in--this week--crickets.

[CentralMass]

31. If it has to happens I hope that it's quick.

[Kablooie]

32. Hard to sleep at night.

But I've decided to stay at home.
I'm hoping that will help calm me down.

[nolabear]

33. Well, higher than I'd like but we're okay.

Even other than fearing getting sick, which I do a little, and dying, which I hardly do, the collateral damage is rough. People are taking serious economic hits here in Seattle, my kids included.

And if rage is anxiety, which it is, I could bust a meter.

[Blue_true]

35. Low. I just have never gotten excited about things that I can't control.

I focus on the things that I can control, control them, and leave the issue there.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

36. I am the bastard offspring of Lady Macbeth and Howard Hughes.

I am washing my hands a lot and am socially distancing myself more than usual, which is quite a bit anyhow.

[MLAA]

37. I have kinda of low grade anxiety

I keep taking our temperature. My husband’s once a day, but I’ve been taking mine several times. He is very high risk. He is completely grounded in the house. I am going out only for critical items like picking up his prescriptions. But I worry about being infected and then giving it to him. It’s unlikely since I am hyper careful on my occasional forays out of the house, but still I am anxious.

[virgogal]

38. Very high,I'm 85 years old.

[Turin_C3PO]

49. Take care of yourself, virgogal!

[MerryBlooms]

39. Off the chart.

Saw my shrink today and last 20 minutes she informed me she had been out of country and been through Liberia-LAX-SEATAC. So, then I got a call from a co-caregiver that my one client is in complete shutdown-no outside visitors, including mail. Out of a job there for the rest of the month, plus I love her so much, I will miss her terribly. Saw my shrink today, and in the last 20 minute of our session, learned she had been vacationing out of country in Costa Rica, and had come home vid Liberia, LAX,SEATAC. Then! Asked me if I was nervous about that. Um, yeah maybe a little... Considering I've undergone intubation for months on end for ARDS pneumonia, was taught to drain my lungs for all that foamy shit and felt like I was drowning and still have PTSD related to all that shit... Yeah, maybe just a little uncomfortable. Press my button for a nurse and none came to help me. Imagine gasping for air, pressing that button, trying to syringe the crap outta your lungs and NO ONE coming to help. That's what I went through. You can't scream because you're intubated... Just gurgles.

[CousinIT]

40. Through the fucking roof.

In IT. Dealing with "everybody gotta be remote" thing. My ass should have been retired 5 years ago but that ain't happening ($$$).

We have an utterly INCOMPETENT president and administration which is another virus ON TOP of the coronavirus. It's WORSE than having no leadership. INCOMPETENT leadership is MUCH worse than none. Especially in an emergency. ANY emergency.

Ugh.

UGH!



NOW all I need is to get sick with the shit.

Pfft.

[EarthFirst]

41. I was fine until I went shopping this evening.

Very basic; weekly type stuff.

I’ve been following along intently; however this was a sobering wake up.

People. Are. Terrified.

[Danmel]

42. Horrible

Absolutely horrible

[cynatnite]

43. I would be less anxious if more information was available and less lying from tRump. n/t

[defacto7]

44. Wow, I'm amazed by the number of posts here

Lots of people feeling pain. I honestly have very little more than normal and I'm pretty tuned into this whole covid thing. I'm old, have an immune disorder so I'm not exactly healthy. But I tend to do well in a crisis, I laugh at adversity, spit in the lion's eye. It's a good day to die.

[Jimbo S]

46. Was OK until Wednesday night.

I lost my job four weeks ago and had been dealing with low-level anxiety during that time. Had lunch with a fellow unemployed colleague a couple of weeks ago and he mentioned employers are being skittish due to supply-chain interruptions and are concerned about how the 2020 will end up looking and it was only February, thereby affecting hiring.

Then the news cycle Wednesday was fast and furious. I was in Madison having lunch at the student union and seeing students reaching for their phones and noticing a low-level buzz how UW-Milwaukee is making spring break a second week, then the news that Madison will close the dorms for two weeks after break and all classes going on-line. NBA suspending their season. Mind boggling stuff in a short amount of time.

My wife is preparing for her second marathon taking place on the 11th and are all but resigned to the fact her hard work will be wiped out.

[ooky]

47. Trying to manage it.

It's up.

[Maru Kitteh]

50. My sleep has gone straight to hell r/t anxiety.

I can't get to sleep, and I can't stay asleep more than about 4-6 hours if I'm lucky.

[Meowmee]

52. Pretty bad

But I am carrying on. I am high risk, my father even more. I have set up a protocol for hand washing / sanitizing and I am getting a bit ocd about it and all the cleaning, it is wearing me down. I have one more work related thing tomorrow and then I can basically stay home except for shopping etc. I have stocked up as much as possible. I don’t know what to do because that is my exercise.

I wonder if it is safer to go for walks but they are harder for me. I have some appointments and I wonder if I should go, one is the dentist. Should I visit my neighbor who is 91 and had brain surgery a while back. The thought of staying home completely is very depressing.

The whole world has gone even more nuts..

[PghTiny]

54. A bit elevated

I just spent $218 on groceries and cleaning supplies this evening. I am 42, single, and live alone.

[Raine]

55. Can't think of much else

I need to quit reading this stuff and find other things to watch on TV.

[walkingman]

56. Not great - I wish I had not been so greedy and took some profits.

[wendyb-NC]

58. It's spiking again,

Staying busy here at home. Today was so Spring like, I enjoyed doing some yard work. This is therapeutic for me, while I'm working midst the bird songs, and sweet earthy scent of blossoming shrubs and trees.

Thank you, for asking, LuckyCharms.

[KT2000]

59. I posted this before -

A friend who was a dr. in China said to do this: Inhale and hold your breath for 20 seconds. If you have no pain in the chest, you are OK. This is not a diagnostic test but a way to relieve your anxiety. BUT - if you do have chest pain, that would be something that needs to be addressed.

[Raine]

62. THANKS

I just tried that and it calmed me down (at least for now}.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

71. Unfortunately, that breath holding test is nonsense.

[TygrBright]

61. "Elevated" but not crippling. n/t

[Bonx]

63. Higher than I'd like. It was odd with the juxtaposition of how beautiful a day it was.

[MontanaMama]

64. I'm scared.

We don’t have any active cases of Covid19 here in Mt at the moment but it is coming. I spent all of yesterday in the hospital with my husband and his father who died yesterday afternoon. While I knew he was failing and that he would probably not live through the day, it was difficult to be present when I was so worried about not touching anything...my face, surfaces, door knobs...when my father in law was restless, I would run my hand over his forehead or arm to soothe him and while that should have been easy, it wasn’t. As soon as he would fall asleep again, I ran for the sink to wash my hands. This is a nightmare.

[BusyBeingBest]

77. I'm sorry you lost your father-in-law, my sympathies to you

and your family.

[GemDigger]

65. It depends on which thread I am reading at the time.

The one before this one was about Susan Collins and it raised it quite a bit. The next thread was yours and I calmed down a little bit. Thanks for that, but now I will prolly read another that will greatly piss me off.

[Raine]

66. Me too

I go back and forth from calm to high anxiety depending on what I read or see on TV.

[ibegurpard]

67. High because of the societal fallout

Not so worried about the disease itself but all of the cancellations and shutdowns and how they're going to affect everything. I lived through the AIDS crisis and lost loved ones so that i'm prepared for as cold as it sounds. The disruption of this could be catastrophic though.

[RobinA]

86. Yeah, This

I live in the PA "epicenter" of Corona, Montgomery County. Many things are closed. Grocery store shelves are bare, and Friday evening is my grocery shopping time. All was well until the governor announced all the closings yesterday and then everyone went to the grocery store. The fallout is my worry.

[tandem5]

68. A five. It was a 9.5 election night 2016 because

all of this was implied with his "victory."

[canetoad]

69. After 9/11

The 'Alert but not alarmed' warnings in response to terrorism, sort of describe how I am at the moment.

I'm dirt poor, so don't fly or spend time at concerts or shopping centres, so in a backhanded way, that's lucky. It helps to be a bit introverted - handful of close friends, and we are all in agreement that at our ages we need to be cautious.

Other than that, I'm spending more time wandering deserted beaches and bushland with the dogs. That in itself provides a lot of stress relief.

Hang in there buddy, get some fresh air and enjoy nature in a solitary way.

[Niagara]

70. My anxiety level is crazy high

I've had a knot in my stomach since yesterday. I'm not panicking but I'm stressed out. I'm worried about my adult children as they both work in public jobs, my mother (she's diabetic), my friends and everyone on DU.


It was a comfortable 54F outside and I went for a slow walk tonight since my stomach is bothering me. I usually power walk 2-3 times a day since I quit smoking since it distracts me and helps take my mind off smoking. I'm not sure what date I stopped, it was either January 31 or February 1st. I wasn't paying attention to the exact date and it wasn't planned. Thankfully, it just happened cold turkey with the help of power walking, Tootsie Rolls and Life Savers Pep O Mints keeping me occupied.


The knot in my stomach currently comes and goes. It's difficult to calm down when so many people are facing an uncertain future and general Repuke incompetence. I'm going to work on some breathing exercises and try to get some sleep.


It helps knowing that I'm not alone and DU is here.

[bullwinkle428]

73. Elevated for myself, but terrified for some around me in very high-risk groups.

[Sugar Smack]

78. I worked some off boarding up vulnerable windows.

In other words, mine's pretty high, too.

[Dem2]

80. I looked at your leaf and read

"mine is pretty high"

Yeah, I'll bet!

[jmg257]

81. Pretty low - TGIF!!

Looking forward to a nice weather-day tomorrow.

had to skip a St Paddy's trip this weekend - but plenty to do instead.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

82. Elevated

Somewhere between "calm" and "panicked". I'm basically questioning everything in terms of outings, appointments, etc. Wife and I are likely going to cancel our weekly date night for the first time in forever. I work in child welfare and there is almost no way we can really shut down, nor can I completely avoid lots of people no matter where I'm at. I'm nervous that eventually I'll be exposed to it at some point. I'm in my early 40's, I'm healthy, don't get sick so much, but my wife has diabetes and my youngest daughter has had some asthma issues, so I'm more worried about them.

[melm00se]

83. No different than any other day

this is not akin to a y. pestis (Black Death) or H1N1 ("Spanish" flu) outbreak.

[Bayard]

84. Rising more all the time

Been stocking up this week for a month's worth of supplies, human and animal. We are both over 60, and I have various respiratory conditions. One more big trip and I'm hunkered down for a month.

Mr. Bayard has been home for the past month, but worried about when he goes back to work. His folks are both in a nursing home in their 80's. My pregnant niece is in Germany. A few really anxious days when my brother and his wife were diagnosed with it, but turned out to be viral pneumonia.

So far, the closest case to us is an hour away.....

[redstatebluegirl]

85. I have a compromised immune system and am almost 65.

With that said, mine is pretty high right now. My husband continues to go to his lab every day although he will be teaching remotely after next week. I also worry about an aunt who is 85 and all alone in Houston. She didn't have children (seems to be a thing in my family), she is active in a church there, and the church people have our number and have been looking in on her.

What annoys me are the young people saying "they aren't worried at all since it is really bad for old people". Well, guess what you are carriers to old people like your parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles.

I also worry about those who are in minimum wage jobs with no net.

[Iggo]

87. Upper medium and holding steady.