OP, if you mentioned having renters so you must have investment properties? Worst case scenario wouldn’t you have the option to sell one of you needed to to free up some money?

Really struggling mentally. We were supposed to be leaving on an overseas holiday today. Instead I'm still trying to fight to get refunds.

I was made to feel guilty by a worker from DD's daycare/kindly for pulling her out because bit affects their jobs & the centre might not survive. I feel bad enough about disrupting her early childhood education!

I'm panicking about home schooling. DS's teacher is a hard task master & he's autistic & fights change all the way. DS doesn't have close friends to Skype but loves social contact so how will he cope?

My parents are stressed mentally & I'm wearing that burden through phone calls & am expected to do their shopping, online stuff etc. How with small children I don't know! I'm terrified DF will not survive a diagnosis of corona.

I still have to carry the burden of everything else - food, cleaning etc. because FH is working long hours. I get no me time, everyone listens to their music, makes noise, watches their tv. I get no peace to unwind!!

And we've only just started!!!

I'm so scared, I'm having the worst thoughts nothing cam stop this, nothing we our debts will choke us our mortgage will bury us, we are not going to ride this wave

Going ok, hating home schooling, avoiding the media.

I'm really struggling mentally. My anxiety has been running rampant lately (naturally), and now the dark thoughts are starting to come back. I had the foresight to book a telehealth appointment for the day after my husband goes back to work (FIFO) to discuss the possibility of going on antidepressants. I haven't, and won't be telling him. He has a really toxic view of anyone with mental health issues. Especially of people on medication for it. But the thing is, I would rather get the help I need than head down this very dark path again. I've trudged through the natural methods I've been recommended, and it's not enough.
If the meds don't work I don't know what I'll do.

Until then, I just have to make it through right now. Just survive this moment. The next will take care of itself. He flies back to site tomorrow afternoon, it's only one more day to hold it together, then when he's gone I can cry a bit and wait to talk to the doctor.

Pretty bad. School work was done in less than two hours by my Y2 and Kindy girls, they've done a bit of Reading eggs and now they are watching something on their iPads. My husband is very lucky to have a job, but he is working 13hours per day!
I am in complete survival mode.... and feeling the pressure to be the perfect crafty-baking-playing mum. This is all fucked, I am dying to go to the gym, my favourite coffee shop, the playground for my 2 year old. So, yeah, not doing the best.

Homeschooling is driving me insane. My two teenagers are at each other all the time. My husbands work is dying off so less money coming in but we don’t receive anything from government because we are not on Centrelink payments. My dog has injured himself so badly, don’t know how, and we may have to put him to sleep on the weekend. My mum is sick and isolating and becoming depressed because she’s all alone. I have to call her constantly so she doesn’t lose the plot. My nan is not well and I’m terrified of her dying and me not being able to say goodbye to her. I’m pretty overwhelmed by everything at the moment.

Anxiety is through the roof. Wake up at night and can't sleep and feel like I can't breathe.

I havent lost my job yet (cross fingers) but Im fucking terrified for the older members of my family.

I'm doing worse than I thought.. At first I was like, this is going to be ok.. Now I'm scared, not sleeping. I have mental health issues, but I recognise when things are going downhill. Considering asking my doctor for something to calm the nerves at night time. It's hard trying to sleep when your brain won't switch off. I feel for my kids, they just don't understand it all. It does help that we are all going through the same thing..

It's really made me re prioritise my life and see what really is important to me and what's not. Shows us that things can change in an instant no matter how well set up we think we are and really makes me see that being a good person above all else is more important than possessions

Trying to avoid the media - just watch a bit of news once the kids are in bed. Mentally starting to worry about the financial implications. Feeling very uncertain and a little like we're on the edge...

I think it’s going to get a lot worse. At first I thought it might be better to get it and then get over it because I was still going into work I thought I would get it in the train. Now I work from home and I’m with my family I don’t want us to get it at all. I’m really careful but my husband has no clue. He is still if I get it, I get it attitude I think it is very selfish of him. We agreed if one of us gets it the other would sleep upstairs on the blow up mattress, it’s very comfortable now he says what’s the point you would already be infected. Wtf the idea is to isolate so you know the kids don’t get it - I’m really pissed at him. I hate ignorant attitudes, watch the news take the advice follow instructions. It’s better not to get it.

We're ok at the moment. I am considering a how to binge on utube though- how to make your own mud hut, how to forage for food in the bush, how to build a hangi...you know just for back up.