Dealing with Panic, Anxiety, Delirium, and Mental Health
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Dealing with Panic, Anxiety, Delirium, and Mental Health
Coronavirus has the world on edge.
As the figure of confirmed cases grow over day per day, it’s understandable that people would be frightened .
But some of the public panic displayed in the past weeks has been dis-appropriated to the risk posed by Covid-19 as we understand it today.
Why is that?
Psychologists and public health experts say that it comes from a mix of powerless AND LIMITED KNOWLEDGE.
As human beings, we have evolved to react poorly to uncertainty and unpredictability. When we feel like we don’t know everything we need to know in order to protect ourselves and our loved ones, we feel vulnerable.
Lack of information about the nature and the course of the threat exacerbates a feeling of not being in control which leads to anxiety and sense of panic.
When it comes to Coronavirus, it’s a fear of unknown. It’s spreading globally, there is currently no vaccine or pretest confirmed.
So what can we do?
Emotional regulation is the ability to align how we’re feeling with how we want to feel. It’s not about turning off emotions and not feeling anything, but about bringing them into a point where we feel it’s tolerable in a given situation.
When it comes to Covid19 , we don’t want to curve off our anxiety all together. By now we have heard the advice to slow the spread of coronavirus, we need to practice social distancing which is here to reconnect with things that we often neglect in order to protect our mental and emotional health.
Read books. Read research. Make homemade meals using new recipes (mixtures). Meditate . Exercise. Organize your house. The rest ,let people you care about know what they mean to be with them.
Research shows that psychological distancing helps with emotional self-regulation, decision making and problem solving, all key factors in conflict resolution.
Dealing with Panic, Anxiety, Delirium, and Mental Health
Coronavirus has the world on edge.
As the figure of confirmed cases grow over day per day, it’s understandable that people would be frightened .
But some of the public panic displayed in the past weeks has been dis-appropriated to the risk posed by Covid-19 as we understand it today.
Why is that?
Psychologists and public health experts say that it comes from a mix of powerless AND LIMITED KNOWLEDGE.
As human beings, we have evolved to react poorly to uncertainty and unpredictability. When we feel like we don’t know everything we need to know in order to protect ourselves and our loved ones, we feel vulnerable.
Lack of information about the nature and the course of the threat exacerbates a feeling of not being in control which leads to anxiety and sense of panic.
When it comes to Coronavirus, it’s a fear of unknown. It’s spreading globally, there is currently no vaccine or pretest confirmed.
So what can we do?
Emotional regulation is the ability to align how we’re feeling with how we want to feel. It’s not about turning off emotions and not feeling anything, but about bringing them into a point where we feel it’s tolerable in a given situation.
When it comes to Covid19 , we don’t want to curve off our anxiety all together. By now we have heard the advice to slow the spread of coronavirus, we need to practice social distancing which is here to reconnect with things that we often neglect in order to protect our mental and emotional health.
Read books. Read research. Make homemade meals using new recipes (mixtures). Meditate . Exercise. Organize your house. The rest ,let people you care about know what they mean to be with them.
Research shows that psychological distancing helps with emotional self-regulation, decision making and problem solving, all key factors in conflict resolution.