Lockdown is UK’s mental depression.

We are all affected.

For everyone lockdown has been a different experience. It could have been one of the worst and most tragic moments in 2020, one of their most unexpected and boring ones, or perhaps the happiest and most calming moment. Whatever lockdown meant to you, death, boredom, stress or happiness, it can’t be ignored that it is affecting our minds in a problematic way.

But even when my words speak about lockdown as it had passed: it hasn’t. And the effects it has on people are still present and continuing. And even when there were some positives in the time where everyone was forced to stay inside, the psychological negatives have impacted many if not all of us.

Lockdown forced us to have a new kind of life, a life without friends, without hugging and with panic. To the privileged ones not living in utter poverty, or the 90% of people in the UK, this has had become probably the first time were stress for one’s health have become everyone’s top priority and reason for stress. This plus the many families that had to take distance or people who will have to suffer through a lot of loneliness, it can be said that the entire country is not only at a state of panic but also depression. Real depression.

Younger people, like myself, are at the moment nor doing anything. Lessons to drive? Cancelled. Their jobs? Taken. Their friends? Somewhere else. And we can’t get started with the class of 2020. Graduations lost, expectations not meet, and even if sounds as a “First world problem”, we cannot ignore the fact that many young people who put their time and effort, of almost 2 years, to receive a piece of paper in the usual way: will not even get that.

And as the country, it’s trying to heal itself up. Mostly by the Prime Minister who is doing everything in his power to get the economy going, regardless of the health of the working class. Everyone now is trying to get out of that state of depression. Jobs are getting harder to find, everyone continues to panic about distancing, and life is not normal. It won’t be normal, until at least a few months… or years.

Everyone is losing morality, and with this, further depression, further distance, anxiety, and even if the country tries their most to heal the problem, everyone will be left with an awkward stare, a dry swallow and a weird feeling of something not being right.

Those who were truly and horribly affected by these current events, will probably not get over COVID-19 for another.. year, probably. The media and the government is trying to appeal to them with “sorry”, the same as they do with the students, with the higher classes and the working classes. We really don’t need that anymore.

What the country needs is a way to heal itself more slowly, the changes set by the government will get us nowhere but to more death and more panic. The more people see others die, the more they will close themselves, increasing unproductivity, loneliness, sadness and therefore depression.

The only thing we can do left is to keep on surviving, trying to get out of this, do the best for those we lost and support the ones that need it right now.

We aren’t going to heal easily, but a thing we can do easily is to make these rough times better for those who are suffering the most.

Take care, in these unexpected times, please.