We barely coped with the problems that the first wave of pandemic brought us, and now they are already talking about the second. Psychologist Zhanna Zasypkina told how to get rid of a sense of anxiety and fear that cause conversations about new quarantine.
Many of us did not believe in the reality of the pandemic for a long time, considered it part of the political game and even a worldwide draw. When it became obvious that Covid really exists and thousands of people die from it, we denied the probability of Lokdown. But he could not be avoided.
Yes, life gradually began to enter the usual track: we returned to work, went on vacation, sent the children to study. But we will not be such as before. Perhaps not everyone realized that 2020 divided our life into “before” and “after”, made it clear that it could get out of control at any moment, and planning and constant “probing pulse” were not the key to success.
We lost the feeling of stability, which in a critical situation turned out to be an illusion. It is important to accept this fact and from now on build your life differently. The question is how.
Social autism
Having resigned to the restrictions that entered our lives with the beginning of the Locdown, we massively went online. It turned out that he gives us the opportunity to lead an almost familiar way of life without physical contact. We celebrated birthdays in the zoom, studied with children on the Internet, talked in messengers, made purchases online.
You will be surprised, but many are so used to it that the return to offline was with difficulty. I often hear from my customers that they like to “stay at home” so much that they do not seek to leave him.
Minimed friends were eliminated, it turned out that you can work and relax in your own kitchen, expenses on the road, gasoline, restaurants and clothes have decreased, which is important for those who lost income and felt the economic consequences of the epidemic. We witnessed the largest people in the world history.
Fast shit
Millions of people who have become ill with coronavirus not just suffered serious stress, almost equal to the severity of the disease, but are still fighting the consequences of infection so far.
Chronic fatigue, autoimmune reactions of the body, sleep problems, the inability to concentrate, play sports and even return to work – this is far from a complete list of medical and social post -to -shock problems.
Many of those who were lucky enough to get out of the “covid” meat grinder, faced with anxious-depressive disorder and panic attacks against the background of stress and the consequences caused by the virus.
I recommend that you pay attention to any mental and physical discomfort: not to inspire for yourself that “it only seems” and “it will pass by”, and do not hesitate to seek help from specialists.
Natural selection
In difficult situations, the strongest. Pandemia is essentially a war, both biological and informational. Millions of people were left without business without work, and not everyone managed to instantly reorient, start a new project and find a new job, especially if the sphere was at risk, as happened with tourism or beauty industries and entertainment.
Economists and sociologists claim that autumn will be more difficult for many than spring. Because spring and summer people still lived on accumulations in the hope that «it will all end soon». And now the money has ended, and the economic collapse is of a link in nature – we have nothing to pay for each other.
The search for earnings and uncertainty in tomorrow, attempts to work in a new sphere cause a wave of depression and anxious states in which it is difficult to find a resource and strength to move on.
Information poisoning
Humanity survived more than one epidemic, but a distinctive feature of the Pandemia of Coronavirus – the amount of conflicting information that attacks from the screens of the TV, from chats and instant messengers and, of course, printed and digital media.
For six months now, we have been constantly living in this information chaos, we don’t know what statistics to believe and believe whether to get help when detecting the symptoms of the disease and what to prepare for the near future: “close” or not for repeated quarantine, whether they will pay money, whether the government is going to help the population, whether students will be sent to distance learning.
The main thing is that we cannot plan anything, we cannot be sure of anything. And we cannot disconnect from the information flow, because it has long become part of life. Information terrorism is worried, we are afraid for health and future and feel hopelessness – no matter what we do, we are no longer the owners of our lives.
Family fatigue
If the partners who had everything good before quarantine are just a little tired of each other, then in families where everything was not very good, abscesses were revealed. In conditions of self -isolation in the world, the number of cases of domestic violence increased many times, as announced in April by the UN Secretary General Antoniu Guterierrish.
About how many family boats crashed against the side of the locaun will become known closer to the end of the year when accurate statistics appear.
What to do with all this? You have probably heard about several stages of grief that a person who has encountered troubles? The pandemic is really serious, it hit to
one degree or another and still hit everyone, you need to come to terms with this, it should be prepared for this. Allow yourself to accept this truth, as they believed in the very possibility of an epidemic six months ago.
Do not drown out emotions: angry, swear, be afraid, worry. Throw away from your head thought that you are a loser if you have lost your job or business. Look for a resource in the family, do not refuse to communicate with friends, any living communication with people is now constructive.
And finally, for the first time in your life – do not make any plans. Let the “second wave” take yourself to unknown, but therefore especially interesting shores. Just remember: we live in a unique time that requires non -standard solutions.