A young person speaking about their experience of the COVID-19 Pandemic as part of the CONTINUE Project.

OK, So how did you How did you feel when lockdown was first announced? Uh, stressed because it didn't go out. Yeah. What else meant? What else does it mean for you? Um, what it means, Like like, even though you can just, like, stay at home and do things they don't normally do and get get, you don't have to go up. Anything else talking on, uh, just being with your general family that you don't normally get to spend a lot of time with them

So what? You said you did new things. So what new things played? Lots of board games. Uh, just generally talking that we don't normally get to do just being around everyone

So how did how did you feel? I don't mind being anxiety, though. There's a strong drug me that much that go out. What? What sort of things did you do to kind of help That feeling, uh, talking to people on zoom on the phone, just like then it just feels like you're with everyone again

It's Well, it's like, you know, we have anxiety and stuff as well. Yeah. So what happened with college? What? Uh we did everything online with teams, and then we just And then we just like teachers talking and we had to write down what we had to do

And then we go away and do it. And then as soon as we got back, we just had the day. OK, so how how did that feel doing it that way instead of being in college? And it was OK just to like, sort of like see pictures on him and everyone else else's voices and then got back was nice to see everyone again

And when you were writing down all the, uh, the lesson stuff or when you were writing your notes down, did you? Did you find it easier by yourself? Or did you find it hard at home? Uh, I think I find it easier for her to I get distracted quite a lot by other people on their own phones or just talking or just laughing about something. It's just distracting me. And then I don't really do that much because I got distracted and then when I'm at home, it's just easier

I can just put some music, just write it down and then done and do something I want to do after. Nice. Nice

So when When they announced that, like, everyone could, like, leave their homes and, um, go outside. How did that make you feel? Good? Because it's like you come out of everything you get to do stuff that you really want to do Not, like, go to a centre or go on dates and stuff like that. See, people come here

So what weren't allowed to do? So what sort of what sort of thing did you what was, like, the first thing you did when you found out you could leave the house? Um, properly, um, go out the centre, go on. More dates, and then if you could come here. Oh, yeah

Um, you come to the group on the Saturday, The Tuesday Oh, ok, well, so how did you find, um, being online with those groups? Um, good, because it's like the same group, um, get to see, like, everyone online, even though you're not with them. It feels like you are with them, but you are at home, which is good. Mhm

So if you could pick up the phone and you could speak to you, but at the start of lockdown. So speak to like who you were then. Is there any advice that you would give yourself, or is there anything you can tell yourself to make it be easier? Um, try not to get too needy about people

If people have any want over or anything, try not to be, like, too needy about it. Don't call them, like, 10, 20 times a day. That's how it was back then

Just don't try to get them on the way. It's like 100% needy, but it's not that good. So why Why do you think you felt like you had to call them? Uh, because the start, um, like, probably just miss everyone

You know, we were out and then not don't listen too much because you seeing everyone in person now, it made it a lot easier to do. So was it Was it easy to Was it easy to keep those connections there at the start? Yeah. Yeah

What was what was kind of, um how did you find it? Easy. Uh, just like seeing people online and then speaking to people. So then if you could If you could speak to someone else

Like, um, if you could talk to a friend who said I'm really struggling during lockdown. What advice would you give them? Um, go do some of that. You really enjoy to get distracted

Try not to worry too much about it and keep yourself calm. Yeah. No, that's great

Thank you. And let's.

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