Hello Friend,
How’s your mental health during this trying time?
Do you feel the struggle to adjust to this “new normal” surrounding – social distancing, self-isolation, quarantine, or lockdown?
That feeling of making you worry, scared, anxious, down, or bored..well, you are not alone!
During this time, as much we have to stay inside the house to protect ourselves from COVID-19, it’s not just our physical health that’s at risk, it’s also our mental health and well-being.
Having our daily routines being changed in a snap is a great factor that could result in depression. Most likely because we lost the things that normally keep us emotionally well.
For the first week being in lockdown, it’s like the holidays, right? We appreciate those mornings that we don’t need to wake up early to go to work. We are able to tend to our kids’ needs – cook their favorite food, play with them. Those areas in the house that we keep forgetting to clean because of being busy at work, we finally have time to do so.
However, for the following weeks, as we see the daily number of infected increases exponentially, being trapped inside the house feels like it’s been years already. And there’s no hope that the lockdown will be lifted in the coming weeks, but chances are it will be extended.
So there’s that feeling that you can’t understand. You know that it’s for the good and safety of your family, but you’re dreaded to go outside, go back to your normal daily activities, keep on wishing that everything will go back to the way it is.
But it won’t..at least, for now.
Cause on an honest note, we are at war. A war that we can only win if we stay at home. And even though this is far different from countries throwing missiles, bombs, the casualties here are also those that can’t fight and are helpless.
So being scared that you might be infected by the virus if you’re feeling some symptoms but can’t be tested right away can have a negative impact on your mental health too.
How Panic Can Create Chaos
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