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16 Feb, 7 tweets, 3 min read
#LockdownVoices

"Lockdown for me is a living hell. Monday before Xmas I tried to take my own life, mid January I tried again.

If this carries on much longer I can’t guarantee I won’t succeed in doing it...
"I’ve been a sufferer of anxiety and depression for many years, I went through lots of counselling and therapy but the way I handled it was having my friends around me and doing the things I enjoyed.

When I went through bad times I used the things I enjoyed as milestones...
"...to look forward to, to help me get through.

I’d have four music festivals a year booked which were my happy places, they were spread out between March and September meaning any time I struggled I only had a short while before I could be back in my happy place...
"I haven’t been able to attend anything like this since the end of festival season 2019.

I now have nothing to help me get through the tough times, I can’t see my friends, I can’t go to my happy place so I’m stuck in my head."
▪️ 25% more people had suicidal thoughts in lockdown 1 (British Journal of Psychiatry study)

▪️ Biggest killer of under 35s in the UK? Suicide: even before lockdown a life lost every 90 mins

▪️ @Ldn_Ambulance attends 60% more suicides or attempted suicides per day than in 2019
'Lockdowns' come with terrible costs, not least to our young people. Covid 19 is serious but we believe the 'cure' is far worse than the disease.

There *is* an alternative.

If you haven't already, join our campaign now to back a better way, at: timeforrecovery.org
...and if you are personally struggling right now, we urge you to please pick up the phone and talk to @samaritans
- more info: samaritans.org

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"I lost an uncle back in March, suffering dementia.

He was left alone to die in his care home.

They tried to say it was Covid so my mum (who had power of attorney) asked to see the test results from the autopsy, all of a sudden they said it wasn’t Covid and...
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17 Feb
#LockdownVoices

"We are locking down but at what cost? What incalculable cost to an entire generation?"

I'm 55 and thankfully have never suffered from depression or anxiety before. Usually a glass half full person.

But lockdowns have pushed my mental health to an extreme...
"I am anxious and depressed a lot of the time. Lack motivation to work and carry out tasks and need 9 to 10 hours sleep just to function.

I was even suicidal last year and spent three nights working out how I could kill myself.

I have NEVER EVER felt like this before...
"I worry all the time for my young adult children and their futures.

The one that is working from home is under unprecedented pressure and has taken hardly any holiday so is burnt out.

With rising youth unemployment they know they are lucky to have jobs...
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15 Feb
#LockdownVoices

"My uncle - early 70s - found blood in his urine last Feb.

It was Oct before he was fully tested and diagnosed.

'Sorry, Stage 4, nothing to be done. We cannot say for certain that the delay made any difference.' I bloody can!"
Lockdowns cost lives:

▪️ 1 MILLION women have missed a breast cancer screening say @BreastCancerNow

▪️ 200k have spent more than a year waiting for an operation. It was 1,600 in Jan'19

▪️ 560k lives will be lost *because* of lockdown according to experts @BristolUni ...but...
...despite the harms, there's now very good evidence lockdowns do little or nothing to stop the spread of coronavirus - and may even make things worse.

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15 Feb
#LockdownVoices

"Let me begin by saying that I am considered one of the vulnerable.

Over the past nine months, I have felt more vulnerable to the restrictions imposed than anything else.
"The climate of fear has greatly exacerbated anxieties that I was learning to deal with, and the sense that there is no clear end to this fills me with dread.

Prior to the lockdowns, I was rearranging my life into something I loved, after years of difficulty with mental health.
"Although my access to work and therapy have been able to move online, this is a poor substitute for what I actually need.

The face to face social interaction is essential to me being able to engage well with these vital aspects.
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14 Feb
#LockdownVoices

"I'm a teacher… we can pretend otherwise, but the education of most of our kids is being severely hampered…"

"I teach in a state secondary comp. We are doing our best, and probably doing better than many local schools...
"In short, the quality of our online provision, the attendance of kids, the actual engagement of kids, the quality of education and progress, is woefully below face to face teaching.

We can pretend otherwise, but the education of most of our kids is being severely hampered...
"Those coping the best are only the most very able and most very motivated and supported.

I gather, from friends and colleagues involved in state primaries, that education there is virtually non-existent...
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13 Feb
#LockdownVoices

"Our three year old has Special Educational Needs… the whole of his life has been impaired by the bankrupt strategy of lockdown."

"My son is three years old. He is non-verbal autistic spectrum disorder and has a rare form of epilepsy...
"He used to attend a Special Educational Needs nursery where he received daily, one-to-one support, guidance and care.

He was slowly developing the traits associated with becoming verbal (more confident; indicating a desire to communicate through babbling and showing through...
"....pointing / guiding people to what he wanted).

That has all gone.

He is due to start primary school in September and we are terrified for him.

He has received no support in lockdown whatsoever...
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