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Re: Ask HN: How is everyone feeling?

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Post by stannol »

dimator wrote: post #9
stannol wrote: post #7

Not well, sadly. Trying to stay distracted but all that’s happened to me feels like the perfect storm. Signed a new contract in January and was supposed to start in April, moving countries. Now my flight is canceled and even if it weren’t I’d be unable to enter the country since all visas have been voided. Moving company canceled on me (no money back also, claiming force majeure). Have to leave my apartment by the en…

i'm sorry, this is really awful :( can you contact your current apartment landlord and see what they can do, given the circumstances? hang in there.

I have, but there is a new tenant moving in right after me so there's not much she can do. She offered to store my stuff in the garage for as long as needed thankfully.

Re: Ask HN: How is everyone feeling?

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Post by photonios »

Pretty decent. I've been working from home with my fiance for about three weeks now. Starting the fourth week now. We live in a 50 sqm (540 sqft) apartment together.

We're trying to stay in contact with friends and family as much as possible. We text and call more to just chill.

We're also very much aware of our priviliged position. We're both in software engineering and our jobs are secure for the forseeable future. We got a pile of cash in the bank and are properly insured. Working from home is not a problem at all.

One nasty side effect of working from home and not getting out much is that the days start to blend. I can barely keep track of what day of the week it is. All the days of the week look the same.

Re: Ask HN: How is everyone feeling?

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Post by c0nducktr »

I'm miserable, sometimes.

I haven't been sleeping well, because of the stress. I'm kept awake at night by the idea I'm already infected by a virus which could kill me in the next couple weeks...

I live in a house with two others, both of which still have to go to work, and I'm in an "at risk" group because I have bad lungs.

The worry that one of them may have accidentally brought the virus into the house stresses me out, and until this is over - until I'm not a danger - I can't visit with my family, who are all older than myself, and even more vulnerable.

All my friends have chosen to quarantine as well. The right action, but it still hurts. It's only been 12 days, and I already feel so alone. To think about this being the next 12-18 months is just incomprehensible.

I don't know how I'll handle it. I keep alternating between depression, anger, and feeling nothing at all.

I had really believed this was going to be the year I'd make things turn around for me. I'd been making a lot of steps in the right direction - self-improvement and all that...

I wasn't prepared for it to get worse. At least not on this scale.

Re: Ask HN: How is everyone feeling?

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Post by hablameiato »

To be honest, not so great.

I live alone, in a tiny apartment. Usually that's not a huge issue since I live not too far from a beautiful beach and mountains.

But being stuck inside (i live in France) I'm starting to relapse into depression. I have a lot of anxiety about being alone, about the possibility that I will be potentially let-go. About suicidal thoughts etc..

I was doing better, but last week set me back by a lot. I'm scared I will not survive this situation if it lasts for months.

Re: Ask HN: How is everyone feeling?

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Post by tomjen3 »

To be perfectly honest I am not coping very well. All of this constant bad news getting worse and worse is terrible, and normally I can mostly ignore news, but I can't right now, since they do impact my life directly, and often with very short warning.

I am Danish, and while our authoritise are less terrible than those in the US, that is not a high bar. We can't get the test kits needed, but our minister of health turned a huge offer down. We didn't close the borders until long after we had community spread, etc.

If there was something active I could do (ie not feel-good stuff like running GPU time for research) and somebody could explain to me exactly how we can get out of this in a couple of months, that would be helpful.

At this point I just don't see anything changing, except getting worse, for the next several months and, frankly, I don't see how the society can survive that.

Re: Ask HN: How is everyone feeling?

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Post by blankton »

Useless apparently. Im far better of learning in the university together with some friends. At home I cant get me to do anything. Its frustrating. The possibilities are outstanding, that even adds to the frustration. From a Mental Helth point of view im fine. My family is wounderful, everything is great, besides me being unproductive :)

Re: Ask HN: How is everyone feeling?

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Post by protonimitate »

Varies wildly day to day. Personally I'm not too worried about job loss atm, but am fearful for my SO getting laid off and the potential stress/financial burden it could put on us.

Also doesn't help that I've been planning on pulling the trigger on an engagement ring but now can't risk it. Have just barely enough savings that if one of us did lose our jobs we'd be ok until we find something else, but not much more than that.

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