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How to keep your sanity when you feel like the world is going crazy:
Hi there. How are you feeling today?
It's a loaded question right now. Many of us are having extraordinary feelings in response to extraordinary times. Hundreds of millions of people here in the United States and around the world are doing their best to help contain the spread of novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 by following World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control guidelines and, bluntly, staying the heck away from other people.
Even for a born introvert like yours truly, the era of prolonged, enforced social distancing is hard. Folks are either stuck at home alone, stuck at home with their families, or still having to go out into the world every day to work—either because their work is vital or their employers are being stubborn—and all the while, we're being buffeted by government warnings and endless waves of frightening news.
In short: right now, we're all exchanging some measure of our mental health in order to preserve our own and others' physical health, and that has limits. We're all in this together, for several weeks and months, if not longer, and basically, we need to avoid driving ourselves and each other crazy if we're going to get through it.
That, of course, is easier said than done. To that end, we called up mental health experts to ask what, realistically, we should all be doing to help ourselves and others.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday March 23 2020, @03:41AM (10 children)
Since I have to keep working, so long as the buses keep running this won't actually be all that different. I have zero social life to begin with, and have a tendency to stockpile nonperishable goods as a matter of instinct due to lifelong poverty (don't worry, they all get used, and whatever doesn't gets donated). "Social distancing" is what I refer to as "any given Tuesday."
I'm hoping this makes all the idiots in the country sober up and take a good, long, hard look at themselves. They likely won't, but a girl can dream...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 23 2020, @04:33AM (2 children)
Oh, I always thought you were male.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 23 2020, @06:46AM
She too
(Score: 3, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday March 23 2020, @03:12PM
Do you want me to mail you a used pad or something? Get over yourself.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 23 2020, @06:25AM (1 child)
If you cared one bit about social distancing, you wouldn't be going to work when you know you're sick. Many of the people going to your pharmacy for prescriptions are elderly or ill. Age increases the risk of serious complications from COVID-19. And people who simultaneously contract COVID-19 and another illness like the flu are much more likely to become seriously ill and require hospitalization. You admitted that you could have contracted COVID-19 but still went to work with full knowledge and consent that you were putting many other people at risk. You are a greedy and selfish individual, putting your paychecks ahead of the safety and health of your customers. Don't pretend now that you're conforming to social distancing when you already admitted otherwise. Go smooch with Rand Paul, you rotten bitch.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday March 23 2020, @03:10PM
Duh gubbamint says I'm an essential employee. Take it up with them. Nice try, shit-for-brains. If I start feeling feverish or in any other way ill I'll take the "2 weeks paid leave" offer the company has so kindly extended to us, of course.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Monday March 23 2020, @11:44AM (2 children)
Those like you for whom this is not much of a difference form the stable, calm islands around which other people can cluster and stop panicking. Having no social life can be lonely, but in this situation it comforts others to see it's not immediately life threatening, and that will help them get through it. We all have a critical role to play in the world, even if we can't always see it.
がんばって ください
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 23 2020, @05:33PM (1 child)
Have you seen her posts and how she interacts with others on this site? Stable and calm aren't the words I would use.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday March 24 2020, @06:31AM
Sorry-not-sorry if my tone scorches your delicate little ears, cupcake. I'm still right. Eat your liver!
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 23 2020, @03:17PM (1 child)
I forget if you were the tranny I hated or tolerated on here. Either way good luck, we all need it.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday March 23 2020, @03:25PM
So far as I know we have two MtFs on here, Kurenai and Barbara Hudson. I'm 100% womyn-born-womyn. Sorry (not sorry) if that bothers you, manlet :)
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...