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| Emotional Side Effects Of The Pandemic |
The pandemic forces confrontation with many consequences in the life of each person. Many changes hit many quite differently.
To prevent these from doing severe damage, it is worth taking into consideration the following points:
1. You are not in a Crisis
With a new normality and before the face of the crisis comes the challenge of having to learn and cope with the number of resources in place. Like normality would not be learned but rather becomes the state of life in such current events that proves to be challenging in coping and employing resources.
It gets really confusing, especially when you are not even sure whether to make decisions assuming things return to the way they were before or assume this is the new normal, or that there is an uncertain future to prepare for.
2. Duels
All those days, losses. Loss of routine, spaces, schedules-even a loss of jobs, losing loved ones, school stages. If it is something destroy , then it's obvious that it's a duel, but for the rest, it's all so fuzzy that it is not easy to assume that it goes through there.
You may even feel a little silly-or be considered silly-to feel as though you have lost something. Yet it is very real to feel the loss and mounting. Giving a name to the process helps; he can pretend that he is mourning, thus going through similar, or equal stages. And even if you are in a suspended duel-that is, a period during which you cannot retrieve the body of the person who left-it will be tougher getting out. Dress yourselves with your sorrow and start by naming what you have lost, maybe grieving over them.
3. Name the fear
The body responds to uncertainty with fear. And fear has extremely significant biological implications, like the segregation of certain things that alter the work of our whole body (one of the reasons why many people have gained weight).
Added to this, you were-and are-on the lookout. This also leaves insomnia, little sleep, and severe fatigue because you are always on your whole body "on your guard for danger" that is but not seen and not really tangible.
Identify your fear. Give it a name and state it aloud, but do not give it a place and form. Share it with others and find how they can help you as well as others, in discovering solutions that have been found.
4. Changes and Coping with them
Everything changes: how to move outside of our home, even from how to introduce elements inside it; the ways we communicate and the way we work. Many frontiers of space and territory wiped out and a great many things get disturbed at the same time to be noticed and settled right away.
Or maybe you earn less, or maybe there is greater demand for your home. Everything changes in a wink of an eye and it gets hard to adapt to, all the more so for such people who are not inclined towards adjustment. It requires creativity, energy from all your resources to find a solution to these new multiple situations. From this starting point, start to realize what things are changing, what is costing you extra work and what you urgently need to change so that you start to feel your approach to normality.
5. Need for contact
This can especially be marked by isolation-from seeing none of the people with whom you lived day-to-day, even your relatives-the loved ones. Or seeing them, without touching them, without relating to closeness and normalcy.
So, pretty strong is the way your psyche goes on into an insatiable hunger for contact. To achieve this, it is accordingly vital that you can pick up
a) whom you recharge
Find you someone to rely on. It can be your equals, a little older as in the case of your parents or even grand parents. Find a way to depend on them emotional as well as material. Carry on with that you have to be in contact with, and that you may even realize that there are people who can assist you-you're not a superhero, there are others who can cooperate.
b) Whom you care for
To cohere, care for whom depends on you. Especially if they are minors. Such as your children, or perhaps students. You have to derive strength from those who recharge you in order to conserve those who touch you. If you don't, it might realize that you don't have the strength to stand up, or you might realize in surprise that youths hold you up. And, the problem with this is that the lives of the youths might be seriously affected if they do not find someone to lean on.
6. Loss of Hope
This living current situation shows us so many questions we cannot avoid living with. The ability to face them and move to get answers will be the fundamental step for us in order to continue to face this reality. These can break you down, maybe it's time already for one to get back on the path of their spirituality.
Look for answers that have perhaps been there all along but which you have stopped listening to. What is the meaning of your existence, and of all that your being expresses? From that, regain the hope that will enable you to accept reality from a much more authentic and lasting inner strength.
This will also make your psyche more robust.
7. Seek professional help
If you still face serious problems in such a new reality, then do not forget that there are professionals who could accompany you while searching for answers-and may be involved if you want to do it. So, do it before the damage can become much stronger and affect more people around you.