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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 cmdrklarg on Monday March 23 2020, @07:08PM (1 child)
Social Distancing is SOP for me. I live alone, and my extent of "going out" is picking up takeout. I'm going to limit that as well, so now my only excursions now will be going to work and once a week to the grocery store. Sunday's trip to the store was ok, found what I needed including the distilled water for the CPAP (stores had been completely out the last two weeks).
I did cancel any get together with family for my birthday over the weekend, so that was a bummer. Instead I had a couple long phone conversations with Mom and my son.
My life at work the last week has been setting up remote work for the users. It's easy to enact social distancing when no one is here! Management is taking this thing seriously, and anyone who can do their job from remote is strongly encouraged to do so. I'll be coming in until they decide to close the plant.
I do have a treadmill and weight machine at home, so I won't be going full couch potato. TV and video games are my life :) I'm 51 and in decent health, so I'm not extremely worried.
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2020, @12:21PM
Instead of using distilled water you can wash your tank out with vinegar every week or so. That'll clear up any mineral deposits from normal water.