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<blockquote data-quote="Max68" data-source="post: 2321406" data-attributes="member: 521172"><p>Perfectly put. I couldn't help but wonder the other day constantly reading about how Covid and shielding is affecting mental health, which is understandable, but you tend not to read anything about the mental health of those of us who have been told we are vulnerable but forced to carry on working in arguably unsafe environments! That is mental stress in itself so why is it not taken into account or mentioned by anybody?!</p><p></p><p>We were "told" that we were vulnerable remember. It's not a status we placed on ourselves and yet we have been abandoned by the government and our GP's by the look of it when absolutely nothing has changed. Can my GP tell me I am NOT at risks as a diabetic? No they can't. Yet from a safe distance of a phone call or text message they can't or won't do anything to help us to avoid that unsafe workplace. Huh!! They won't even see you face to face for their safety, one on one in a surgery office, but apparently it's fine to work in a crowded classroom where at the very least the students don't wear masks or in<span style="color: #000000"> <a href="https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/members/jbicheno.278204/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000">Jbicheno</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 15px">'s case no one does! What a case of double standards if I ever saw one!! If we "aren't" at risk why are the government locking down again?! Why aren't GP's seeing us face to face? Why are people being told to wear masks? apart from schools!!</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 15px">When I saw the school counsellor he said he couldn't help me. Purely and simply because he said my fear wasn't irrational but real. The only way I could address that fear was to place myself at risk and of course he wasn't going to suggest that! Everyone now knows I am leaving tomorrow and every single person I have spoken to </span></span>understands and even perfectly healthy staff are very nervous about the winter. So why do not the people that matter understand?!</p><p></p><p>Must confess I had been slipping a tad and wondering if I had done the right thing, but then today I was in the classroom at quite close quarters (my own decision) and suddenly got really nervous and realised that I just can't live like that. Especially when nothing at all will help that real anxiety bar as I said throwing caution to the wind and risking it, and I just can't do that for the next few months.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Max68, post: 2321406, member: 521172"] Perfectly put. I couldn't help but wonder the other day constantly reading about how Covid and shielding is affecting mental health, which is understandable, but you tend not to read anything about the mental health of those of us who have been told we are vulnerable but forced to carry on working in arguably unsafe environments! That is mental stress in itself so why is it not taken into account or mentioned by anybody?! We were "told" that we were vulnerable remember. It's not a status we placed on ourselves and yet we have been abandoned by the government and our GP's by the look of it when absolutely nothing has changed. Can my GP tell me I am NOT at risks as a diabetic? No they can't. Yet from a safe distance of a phone call or text message they can't or won't do anything to help us to avoid that unsafe workplace. Huh!! They won't even see you face to face for their safety, one on one in a surgery office, but apparently it's fine to work in a crowded classroom where at the very least the students don't wear masks or in[COLOR=#000000] [URL='https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/members/jbicheno.278204/'][SIZE=4][COLOR=#000000]Jbicheno[/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=4]'s case no one does! What a case of double standards if I ever saw one!! If we "aren't" at risk why are the government locking down again?! Why aren't GP's seeing us face to face? Why are people being told to wear masks? apart from schools!! When I saw the school counsellor he said he couldn't help me. Purely and simply because he said my fear wasn't irrational but real. The only way I could address that fear was to place myself at risk and of course he wasn't going to suggest that! Everyone now knows I am leaving tomorrow and every single person I have spoken to [/SIZE][/COLOR]understands and even perfectly healthy staff are very nervous about the winter. So why do not the people that matter understand?! Must confess I had been slipping a tad and wondering if I had done the right thing, but then today I was in the classroom at quite close quarters (my own decision) and suddenly got really nervous and realised that I just can't live like that. Especially when nothing at all will help that real anxiety bar as I said throwing caution to the wind and risking it, and I just can't do that for the next few months. [/QUOTE]
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