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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: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday March 23 2020, @01:58PM (1 child)
This pandemic is only a twist on the craziness we've been in the last decade. With a development of this scale, it's only going to amplify. The Bretton Woods structure that has held sway the last 70 years could come undone. China's integral place in that system could be reversed, with widespread consequences of its own. The EU might not survive. In the past dislocations like these are often accompanied by wars and revolutions (SEE: the wars that followed the break-up of the Soviet Union); maybe we'll get lucky this time and avoid that.
In other words, if you're not already strapped in and taking care of your priorities, the pace of events could catch you out. Hop to it. Feelings are a luxury.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 23 2020, @04:40PM
Pandemic! I got that Pandemic over here!