Daily poll

[teaotter]

This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Monday to midnight (8pm Eastern Time) on Tuesday.

Poll #27320 Daily poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 35

How are you doing?

I am okay
25 (71.4%)

I am not okay, but I don't need help right now
10 (28.6%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
15 (44.1%)

One other human
13 (38.2%)

More than one other human
6 (17.6%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

Comments

[lilysea]

Woke up at 4:30am after Not Enough Sleep (my sleep cycle is pretty broken)

and then had an Anxiety attack, probably a combination of

1. not enough sleep

2. plus COVID numbers in my city are soaring (my country is currently 3rd in the world for per capita COVID cases and per capita COVID deaths, and the situation is getting worse, not better)

3. plus telephone GP appointment this afternoon

[adafrog]

Oh dang. {{{hugs}}}

[kathmandu]

Best wishes to you.

[ride_4ever]

What works for one person may not work for another, but when I awake in the middle of the night and feel anxiety or outright panic I read some fic in my primary fandom and that eases the distress and then eventually I fall asleep again. Have you tried late-night fic-reading as a distraction and calmative?

[lilysea]

When I woke up at 4:30am today, I couldn't get myself back to sleep,

because experience has taught me that if I go back to bed at 4am or later

I would have slept through the alarms set on my phone to go off every 5 minutes between 10am and 11am

and slept through my 1pm doctors appointment.

I have two separate issues with waking up at 4:30am

1. Its quite hard to get back to sleep even if I don't have to be up at a particular time the next morning

2. If I ***do*** manage to get back to sleep, odds are good that I will sleep through all my alarms and wake up at 12 noon or 1pm.

[ride_4ever]

Me, sometimes I even wonder if it's worth it to try to go back to sleep because I have to be up at 8:00 AM to make breakfast and lunch food for my family before I leave for work.

[dewline]

Not feeling certain that I can trust things I'm told by other people right now.