You can help keep the sanity of your loved ones in check during the COVID-19 pandemic by learning whatever you can about mental and emotional health at the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention and reacting appropriately to their behavioral changes.
Take care of yourself by keeping physically distanced but socially connected. Call, video, and write people you have not heard from in a long time. Ask how they are doing. Let them know you are available to them. Stay active. Watch TV less, listen to music more, read more, pray or meditate more. Look around your home, at the vacation mementos, the family keepsakes, the family albums, the gifts and awards you've received, no matter from how long ago, and see the remarkable world you have made for yourself. You matter.
But you can only remember the past, not live in it. So look ahead. Planet Earth has recovered from great disasters. Unless you believe COVID-19 marks the end of humanity, in which case you are wrong, then plan for the end of the virus. Do that by keeping busy with your business, professional skills, education, household chores. Be ready to get back to whatever you were doing before the quarantine. You shall return.
But you can only remember the past, not live in it. So look ahead. Planet Earth has recovered from great disasters. Unless you believe COVID-19 marks the end of humanity, in which case you are wrong, then plan for the end of the virus. Do that by keeping busy with your business, professional skills, education, household chores. Be ready to get back to whatever you were doing before the quarantine. You shall return.
