Our response to Covid-19
There is no doubt that Covid-19 is continuing to affect mental health. Mental health around Covid is making headlines, but we’re still sitting on it.
For those who have concerns about getting into their lives, their everyday decisions continue to be affected between whether they should stay home, or they should go out. In the background, the virus is still telling us it’s not done.
In the absence of relatable experiences, learning to navigate erratic induced behaviour brought about through stress and fear is evident; routine or innocuous events have become even more demanding on our cognitive, emotional, and behavioural processes. Whilst we may not always understand fully, we are continuing to expend energy to try to understand and cope with Covid-19.
It isn’t difficult to understand the enormity of society’s stress-related response. Whilst our responses can be sometimes unsettling, it is important to stand back and think about our reactions and how our reactions are affecting others.
Where we continue to be governed by social norms, expectations, or contextual influences, it is important to use common sense when making decisions. Instead of picking sides, we need to entertain a range of possibilities so we can respond to situations, or confront unexpected emotions.
Changing our lifestyles around the pandemic can bring about calmness, to us gain control of our emotions. As we continue to navigate Covid, the clearer and stronger the message around what constitutes safe behaviour, the more the public can pay attention and the greater the chances of behaviour change.
It is important to adopt helpful behaviour that protect, whether it’s wearing a mask, social distancing, or sanitising our hands, we should endorse positive attitudes towards behaviour change. Politicians and leaders also need to normalise the behaviour they wish to see, to mitigate stress, which is otherwise not good for anyone.
Source: https://lens.monash.edu/
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