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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: 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.
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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...