The Coronavirus has brought social life to a standstill. Kindergartens and schools remain closed. Shops are closed, events are canceled until Further notice. Many people are in the home office and spend most of their time in their own four walls. Friends you can’t meet at the moment. In the super markets will be hoarded and the last pack of toilet paper in a fight. It is a stressful Situation, the beats on the Psyche and the human fear of power.
The uncertainty about when normal life returns, is verängstigend, as Oliver Gero Bosch (39), a senior physician at the Psychiatric University clinic in Zurich and co-developer of Psycure to VIEW says: “most of The people are currently in a continuing state of great uncertainty, which increases with the deterioration of the situation still further.”
What, exactly, such a fear makes us?
The Covid-19 pandemic is a global event that extends into the everyday life of each Individual. Bosch continues: “It is something Unknown, Threatening, and insidious and invisible among us.” As a result, a threat arises feeling, and it is hard to be rational and irrational proportions of the uncertainty to tell them apart.
Is fear contagious?
My neighbour has purchased 15 packs of toilet paper, now I have to do that too, or? “Fear can in fact be contagious,” explains Bosch. The senior physician at the Psychiatric University clinic in Zurich, announced the reasons for this are: “This is an evolutionary mechanism. Evolutionarily, we were most of the time, rather at the bottom of the food chain and were exposed to many dangers. Fear as a social phenomenon has served the Survival of the group.”
If we now see today, as people in our environment have fear, their fear to give expression to, and then would pull us through this. “Together with other important feeling of shame, which leads to panic buying of toilet paper”, white the expert.
What can be done against the fear?
The man is used to be able to control everything. The spread of the Virus is outside of our influence, what is fuelling our anxiety. “Similarly exhausting as the fear of the burden of the Lockdown is for the most up to date”, says Bosch. But we can fight against this Situation and against our uncertainty.
a Reliable and time-limited media consumption should be integrated into everyday life, such as the upper doctor explained. But attention: “The media consumer can have two functions: the fear, reinforce, or create security.” This may sound contradictory, what is crucial is the frequency and intensity of media consumption and on the other hand, the source of the information but on the other hand.
“If I leave in my fear, all day long from a Corona Blog to the next browse, and my fear is the selection of the information, then I land quickly in a disastrous Fake News, and my fear increases more and more.” Therefore, it is, according to Bosch is important to be guided by official and evidence-based sources of information and to limit the consumption to one to two fixed appointments per day.
Against the load due to the Lockdown a good daily structure, helps, according to Bosch. “The important thing is showering, dressing, rituals such as eating together in families.” This increases safety in everyday life.
Also positive activities to make everyday life easier. “Follow the joy and the pleasure,” says Bosch. Jobs that make you happy, are of great importance.
“In the common house, the collaboration is crucial,” recommends Bosch. It come to a good agreement and fair division of the activities. The Lockdown was also a good opportunity to rethink rigid gender role distributions.
Social contacts should be maintained. “Here is a very helpful relocation shows to video calls, it feels more physical contacts as SMS and telephone,” says Bosch. Video calls are also increasingly being used for treatments at the Psychiatric University clinic in Zurich. This extra data was developed safe Tool called Psycure, explains Bosch.
the pressure to make things, in this time of the year. It should throttle according to the Bosch in his claims: “you’re supposed to be good and healthy to come through this time, and not run at peak performance at any price.”
Similarly, there are various relaxation techniques that can help against anxiety. “The progressive muscle relaxation, autogenic Training, Biofeedback, but also mindfulness exercises, Meditation and Yoga”, lists the expert.
A cognitive Exercise could be to distinguish irrational from rational fear shares and to distance themselves from the irrational ways. Then you could take care of the rational interests, such as, for example, the risk of Infection, or short-time working, and try to counter them with appropriate measures, step by step. “That can return a feeling of control and the fear of pain.”
