"Having trouble sleeping at night because not getting enough exercise to settle down." 

"Trying to be a teacher and a parent at the same time." 

"Feeling sad that I can’t visit parents, friends, family, classmates, grandchildren, nieces and nephews."

"Loss of income and having my work postponed."

"It is difficult supporting family members who live in other provinces or on the other side of the world." 

"It is hard to focus on working at home because of life distractions and by the internet!" 

"I can’t help but spent a lot of time watching time-consuming Covid-19 related media (news and memes, social media etc)."

"I'm worrying about when my next paycheck will come and the thoughts of not knowing when I will be able to do my job again." 

"As someone who is very social and spends time being surrounded by other people, it is hard to be alone. Communicating through e-mail and text just isn’t the same." 

"It is hard to share spaces with other people who I live with (my partner, my children) who are trying to work at home, trying to navigate this is hard." 

"Another challenge has been helping my own kids adjust to their new school reality. This is my son's graduating year, so a cancellation of classes and grad celebrations has hit pretty hard." 

"I'm battling the anxious feeling of not knowing what's coming next and feeling guilty for not doing a lot of work when it feels like I should be."

"I am sad about losing access to the gym and everything I enjoy normally, like shopping in stores."

"I'm longing for physical connection besides my partner, smiles, touch from my massage therapist, feeling trapped in my house, not able to go to the beach or see friends, losing all business and no idea when i will have income again since i'm self employed." 

"We have total confinement in France, but at least we have a garden to be in and work in. It's hard to not go out in nature, to see friends and to be unsure about my next work opportunity. [I'm] feeling anxiety about the world, places like Syria and India."

"I have a loss of motivation to work and to study."

"I think my family is spending too much time on screens."

"My plans to get out and be outside have been scuppered because of the need to stay indoors and stay home." 

"I miss not being able so socialize face to face."

"It is hard learning to live at a slower pace." 

"I went to the grocery store and had a panic attack in one of the aisles. I was disturbed by how all of us in the store were shopping like it was a normal day, and yet in the air was this unspoken fear and surreality of what is happening. It also hit me that I didn't know when I would see my brother or mother in person again, and that upset me."

"My energy is up and down as is my mood." 

"I'm having to do school online and it is hard."

"In the early days I found my mental health suffering. I've had a few panic attacks in the past year but found them getting worse. All the uncertainty of the first few days was unsettling. Not that anything is more settled now, but I find I have established more of a routine and accepted the quarantine such as it is." 

"I'm Hearing all the sad news about people passing away and how they are suffering." 

"In Kingston, they are shutting down access to community gardens as well as other community-related events that would normally bring us together." 

"It is disorienting to be in public spaces with all the new rules of behaviour necessary to prevent the spread of Covid-19.  Groceries stores continue to be very busy and it's almost impossible to keep a safe ""social distance"" (of 2 metres?) in the narrow grocery aisles.  I've been yelled at a few times for standing in the wrong place in line - too close or too far. It's stressful and difficult to navigate all the rules."

"I am scared of getting the virus." 

"As a teacher in Australia, it has been incredibly challenging. The federal government has refused to close schools - insisting that schools are the safest places for kids to be and that we need to keep schools open for the children of our 'essential workers'. And for many of our vulnerable students it really is the best place to be. However, there has been little consideration of our ageing teaching workforce and the impact on their physical and emotional well-being. Many colleagues have felt as if they have been forced to the front line of a war they didn't choose to be part of. It has been the most disrespectful slap in the face for our teaching profession in Australia. We have been referred to as 'babysitters', with our Prime Minister saying that if we close schools then we will have more problems because teenagers would be congregating at the local shopping centre or 'trampolining venue' and that younger children would inevitably be cared for by ageing grandparents. After backlash for those comments the mantra then changed to not wanting to close schools because students 'would lose an entire year of education'. Parents then effectively felt guilted into sending their children to school or they would be 'bad parents who didn't care about their child's education'. It has been quite a circus and quite a dark time for educators in our country."

While the virus has not yet hit our rural area, we have had a huge influx of non-local travellers. For some reason people in Australia began stockpiling toilet paper (there are so many memes!) Shops are now limiting customers on most items to 1 per customer and this includes toilet paper, baby wipes, kitchen paper towel, tissues, flour, pasta, rice, tinned food, hand sanitizer, antibacterial soap - and that's IF the stores have them in stock. Local craft breweries and distilleries have switched production to WHO approved hand sanitizer as there is literally none available throughout the state and the country. In our rural area supplies are very limited - we only have small supermarkets throughout the area that are owned and staffed by locals. As supplies in the city dwindled we saw people from the city chartering buses and driving around to each of the country towns stockpiling supplies. :( There have also been convoys of caravans travelling through our area doing the same thing. It has been heartbreaking to see the oldies in our community unable to get their regular shopping with their limited fortnightly pensions. Many small areas like ours now will only sell to locals who can prove residence with their driver's license. It is mind blowing to think that this is how our little town is and that this is BEFORE the virus has even reached us."

"Turkish culture is very group oriented in general. Families of multiple generations often live near each other. For example, my apartment is owned by an older couple the floor below me. The husband's mother was the occupant here before she passed away. As people over 65 are now banned from leaving the house, I offered to do shopping for them and so on but their daughter has moved in with them for the duration. It's been nerve wracking seeing groups of people hanging out on the street and so on in close proximity. It is hard to break this."