For someone who has been recently diagnosed with depression and severe anxiety, within the last three months because I was made redundant, I had a breakdown, my life has been turned upside down.
The point about phone calls instead of face to face, I have had two phone calls from my counsellors, and one face to face meeting.
My GP was concerned enough about me, that she brought me in to the surgery to have a talk about my mental health.
She immediately put me on anti-depressants.
The face to face meetings were much more personable and body language is of high importance to having to deal with people.
I have worked in industry for thirty years, then the sports industry for over ten years and the way you present yourself and how you react to situations, to deal with complications and problem solving.
I have always had a strong mindset and I wouldn't have lasted long in work without having a perspective of how to treat people.
I have a counsellor who has been picked due to my circumstances. I would like to think that I would prefer to have face to face sessions. But I don't think I will because of local restrictions.
I live very close to public football pitches, the local children's, youth and open age leagues started this weekend and you wouldn't think that there was local restrictions, and I know the league's have given all the teams advice about staying away from congregating on the touchlines. If I had known that most parents, friends or those just watching, I would have liked to watch my grandson play yesterday!
As a liberal minded person and have an opinion about certain things, the biggest problem that the country has, is that the test, track, trace, isolate scheme was given to companies who were given a lot of money, to get testing to be as in Boris opinion world class. For all that expense, it should have been running in late March, there should be testing stations, like we have polling stations and enough to cope with having everyone trying to go back to school, work, uni, office or supporting your local pub, club, sport without having to travel hundreds of miles to get a
Why do frontline personal in hospitals have to book a test away from their place of work? Surely a hospital should provide tests regularly enough for the staff and patients!
Why does an elderly cancer patient travel a lot of miles by his daughter to get a test?
Why doesn't the hospital provide a triage test before admitting the patient?
The reason, the government in its wisdom did not use national health England!
There is quite a number of local departments of this body and they deal and decide actions taken with the local experts and health authorities and more importantly the police and local councils.
If a breakout of meningitis occurs, they are the people who sort it out and have the authority to enforce any necessary actions required.
I watched the novochoch event in Salisbury, it was a lady who was in charge of the response to the poisoning. These people are trained to organise to protect the public.
Going private, has cost many lives!
The economy took over ten years to recover, according to the so called experts!
Tory policy of cutbacks did not do anything except increase the debt.
Our children will be paying for the decisions made by this government for a long time!
And we are still trying to sort out our oven ready brexit.
The number of people trying to claim universal credit will soar, but how many can't claim?
The actual number of people made jobless during this period is probably double the numbers given by the government.
I am worried about the covid, I'm worried about what it will do to our communities especially the poorest areas, I'm more worried about the way the experts can't agree and how the government has mishandled the preparation for the virus.
I knew in November that a virus was causing alarms in China. I knew, because of the December election was taking the government away from serious concern about the virus, and because of the government belief in being open for business.
Take care, stay safe.