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How to Keep Your Sanity When You Feel Like the World is Going Crazy

posted by Fnord666 on Monday March 23 2020, @03:10AM   Printer-friendly
from the would-you-like-to-talk-about-it? dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:

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.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday March 23 2020, @05:12AM (1 child)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Monday March 23 2020, @05:12AM (#974330) Homepage

    This hit me right in the feels. I'm a hardcore news junkie and there's nothing in the news anymore except for nonstop virus doom-porn.

    Times are so tough I'm actually considering getting back into gaming. They say that CS:GO is one of the last gaming communities that isn't infected with AIDS, heard a lot of good stuff about TF2 as well. Any recommendations for good Star Trek games?

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  • (Score: 0, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 23 2020, @09:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 23 2020, @09:01AM (#974367)

    The media is making billions from this 'plague'.

    I can't shake the feeling this has all been completely overblown, for profit, but a news sector that is out of all control.