Learning Points: 'I fear mental collapse in this second lockdown'

"I worry my teenage anorexia will return"

The reader is regressing to the anxiety she had as a teenager.

I have been reading your column, but I have never written to you. I need help. This lockdown is unbearable. I’m worried about how I am feeling.

 What prompted me to write was that my eight-year-old child, yesterday, asked if I was 'sad'. I'm not coping. I managed the first lockdown well. I struggled at the start, but did some of the things you suggested and I improved.