Coping with Coronavirus
The phychiatrist, in five chapters Knowing, Thinking, Feeling, Doing, Being will help all of us to try to understand firstly what this Coronavirus is, and how we can cope with the big stress born during these weeks of confinement, these weeks of severe but necessary lockdown.
The approach of the psychiatrist is pretty reassuring; to his point of view the stress and anxiety lived by people affected by profound panic for the advent of Coronavirus is similar to the ones of other kind of people with similar, but at the same time, different problematic.
Let's admit it: coronavirus changed our existences; for better, for worse, a pandemic flu is a stressing condition. There is like a shadow close to us, and no one would want to catch it.
Plus, the novel Coronavirus appeared to the horizon just few months ago. It's still mostly unknown to scientists, who, of course are frantically trying to understand how this Coronavirus, SarsCov2 interacts with man; its power of death is a sad certainty.
Sure what it says the author of the book is more than real: there is severe anxiety in environments that people perceive to be unsafe with no easy way to escape. True: no one can go in a healthiest place, because substantially Coronavirus is everywhere; better, in the entire world. There is no escapism in this sense, but we have sufficiently knowledges for fighting against it.
Sure: sometimes the illness is mild, adds the author, although there is plenty of fear with Coronavirus, in particular if peope are old, elderly, if they suffer of high pressure or other sistemic illnesses. Being an unknown illness, scientists are discovering during these weeks how the Coronavirus "treats" a body where he is unwanted guest in.
What this book will teach is how to keep, thanks to a rational and emotional mind, panic and fear under control.
Approaches to this illness the most diversified ones. There is who still don't mind at all; who he/she is maybe too alarmed; but a pandemic flu must be taken in great consideration and I prefer the second group of people. Absolutely!
A brief story of the city of Wuhan, China, where this pneumonia was born; a strange pneumonia unresponsive to the most commont treatment of an illness, once mortal, now, in most cases curable started to alarm the doctors of Whuan.
After China, Italy, France, UK, the USA.
But...How a person can catch the Coronavirus? The Stay at Home Motto was born because isolation doesn't permit to the virus the contamination of the body. It can't pass through walls, said an italian virologist weeks ago.
In fact, this virus can be taken thanks to droplets from nose, or mouth, of a person infected or positive; also if a person coughs.
Transmission through object is another specificity of the Covid-19. What we can do when we go outside? Washing and cleaning our hands often; covering with sleeves or tissues mouth or nose and then throwing away, in case of tissues, these ones into a bin. Avoiding people, crowded spaces.
What suggests the author is to search for prestigious sources. Lancet, WHO, organizations and medical journals in grade to make the difference; also big newsmagazines, where information is accurate. The author will also suggest to spend some time where possible, outside, making gym, stretching, exercises and remembering that we can't stay physically well if our mind is sick and vice-versa.
It's also important to tell to some friends, our sentiments regarding Covid-19 and our fears. An exchange of opinion sometimes re-balance the mood. Well, maybe choosing the right person :-) I would want to add.
Meditation is absolutely another great tool but working together is key tells the author. "People quarantined at home in China and Italy sing together out their windows. We need more of that" Kelly writes.
If you are too mentally sick because of the coronavirus, avoid social medias, where most informations are shared. Sometimes just few minutes per day are necessary for having a vision of the whole situation.
What it will be indispensible to do is "Think global, act local."
And most important is the knowledge of your person, your self for let you stay more calm and more focused. You know what yoìu can read and see, and experience without the risk of unbalancing your soul.
It's important to avoid the so-calleed negative automatic thoughts. An example: we won't never be good at work, but also the personalisazion of a fact. An example is when an event is a real mess, and the person thinks that it was because arrived late.
I want to conclude with a phrase by Brendan Kelly in a passage of the book: "It is certainly true that an event such as a pandemic or global health crisis can and should make us more grateful for the good things in our lives, and that this enhanced sense of gratitude might persist after the outbreak."
Anna Maria Polidori
Coping with Coronavirus How to Stay Calm and Protect Your Mental Health A Psychological Toolkit by Dr. Brendan Kelly is a new, fresh book published by Melville Press.
The phychiatrist, in five chapters Knowing, Thinking, Feeling, Doing, Being will help all of us to try to understand firstly what this Coronavirus is, and how we can cope with the big stress born during these weeks of confinement, these weeks of severe but necessary lockdown.
The approach of the psychiatrist is pretty reassuring; to his point of view the stress and anxiety lived by people affected by profound panic for the advent of Coronavirus is similar to the ones of other kind of people with similar, but at the same time, different problematic.
Let's admit it: coronavirus changed our existences; for better, for worse, a pandemic flu is a stressing condition. There is like a shadow close to us, and no one would want to catch it.
Plus, the novel Coronavirus appeared to the horizon just few months ago. It's still mostly unknown to scientists, who, of course are frantically trying to understand how this Coronavirus, SarsCov2 interacts with man; its power of death is a sad certainty.
Sure what it says the author of the book is more than real: there is severe anxiety in environments that people perceive to be unsafe with no easy way to escape. True: no one can go in a healthiest place, because substantially Coronavirus is everywhere; better, in the entire world. There is no escapism in this sense, but we have sufficiently knowledges for fighting against it.
Sure: sometimes the illness is mild, adds the author, although there is plenty of fear with Coronavirus, in particular if peope are old, elderly, if they suffer of high pressure or other sistemic illnesses. Being an unknown illness, scientists are discovering during these weeks how the Coronavirus "treats" a body where he is unwanted guest in.
What this book will teach is how to keep, thanks to a rational and emotional mind, panic and fear under control.
Approaches to this illness the most diversified ones. There is who still don't mind at all; who he/she is maybe too alarmed; but a pandemic flu must be taken in great consideration and I prefer the second group of people. Absolutely!
A brief story of the city of Wuhan, China, where this pneumonia was born; a strange pneumonia unresponsive to the most commont treatment of an illness, once mortal, now, in most cases curable started to alarm the doctors of Whuan.
After China, Italy, France, UK, the USA.
But...How a person can catch the Coronavirus? The Stay at Home Motto was born because isolation doesn't permit to the virus the contamination of the body. It can't pass through walls, said an italian virologist weeks ago.
In fact, this virus can be taken thanks to droplets from nose, or mouth, of a person infected or positive; also if a person coughs.
Transmission through object is another specificity of the Covid-19. What we can do when we go outside? Washing and cleaning our hands often; covering with sleeves or tissues mouth or nose and then throwing away, in case of tissues, these ones into a bin. Avoiding people, crowded spaces.
What suggests the author is to search for prestigious sources. Lancet, WHO, organizations and medical journals in grade to make the difference; also big newsmagazines, where information is accurate. The author will also suggest to spend some time where possible, outside, making gym, stretching, exercises and remembering that we can't stay physically well if our mind is sick and vice-versa.
It's also important to tell to some friends, our sentiments regarding Covid-19 and our fears. An exchange of opinion sometimes re-balance the mood. Well, maybe choosing the right person :-) I would want to add.
Meditation is absolutely another great tool but working together is key tells the author. "People quarantined at home in China and Italy sing together out their windows. We need more of that" Kelly writes.
If you are too mentally sick because of the coronavirus, avoid social medias, where most informations are shared. Sometimes just few minutes per day are necessary for having a vision of the whole situation.
What it will be indispensible to do is "Think global, act local."
And most important is the knowledge of your person, your self for let you stay more calm and more focused. You know what yoìu can read and see, and experience without the risk of unbalancing your soul.
It's important to avoid the so-calleed negative automatic thoughts. An example: we won't never be good at work, but also the personalisazion of a fact. An example is when an event is a real mess, and the person thinks that it was because arrived late.
I want to conclude with a phrase by Brendan Kelly in a passage of the book: "It is certainly true that an event such as a pandemic or global health crisis can and should make us more grateful for the good things in our lives, and that this enhanced sense of gratitude might persist after the outbreak."
Anna Maria Polidori
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