How Coronavirus is Impacting My Anxiety
This post explains how the coronavirus is impacting my anxiety. I’m sure most of you (and you can include me in this group) are sick and tired of reading about this, and would rather focus on something else. Yet here we are, so I’ll at least do you the courtesy of being brief. Basically, I’m discussing how this coronavirus thing we’re all going through is impacting my anxiety.
The coronavirus impacts my anxiety because other people are affecting me negatively. But, for the most part, I’m doing okay. This has given me an excuse to spend a lot of time hanging out with my cat, who always makes me happy regardless of what goes on. Being alone has never bothered me.
In fact, it is only around other people when I find myself at my most anxious. People seem to have a natural inkling to catastrophize everything, and coronavirus has exacerbated this to an uncomfortable degree. Sure, be worried about reasonable things, but catastrophizing every little thing does nobody any good.
Negative mental states are contagious too, and those who catastrophize needlessly have the potential to harm those who are more anxious. People like me absorb that negativity easier than anyone. It would do all of us a world of good if you would just take a step back and react to what’s going on around you in a more reasonable way.
Tuning Out to Keep Coronavirus from Affecting My Anxiety
By far, the biggest thing I’ve been doing to keep the coronavirus from affecting my anxiety level is keeping my online activity to a bare minimum. My social media presence is next to nonexistent, and I’ve deleted all news apps and avoid reading or watching the news whenever possible. I’ve been doing this for a while before all this began, but I’ve doubled down on it since.
I realize that it’s important to stay connected now, both with friends and with important information in the news, but too much is a bad thing. Social media and the 24-hour news cycle bombards you with information nonstop, and it doesn’t take all that much for someone to be overloaded. It’s okay to step back ("Positive News: How It Affects You and Where to Find It").
Social media isn’t important to me. My friends know how to get in contact with me if they want, and vice versa. I can read the news every once in a while, and then stop. There are much better things to do, and much better ways to stay sane. I can play video games, lie with my cat, or read a book. This is what I’m going to focus on, not staying online.
What are you doing to help minimize the effect coronavirus has on your anxiety? Share your tips in the comments.
APA Reference
DeSalvo, T.
(2020, April 1). How Coronavirus is Impacting My Anxiety, HealthyPlace. Retrieved
on 2024, November 21 from https://www.healthyplace.com/blogs/anxiety-schmanxiety/2020/4/how-coronavirus-is-impacting-my-anxiety
Author: TJ DeSalvo
Anxiety is the most common emotional reaction to COVID-19 pandemic, So, it is of important issue to overcome this emotional distress by satisfying way. Your genuine manner to soften worries presents purposeful solution. In this direction, tuning out the news flooding on coronavirus indicates the best way
to save oneself from the constraints of anxiety. So, we live in an age of electronic information technology, and various social media is bombarding us with sensational news, which have as their main motive marketing rather than accurate public information. This is all the more so when the frightening and sad information is completely consumed and spread by the community. In these circumstances of misinformation by social media, the appearance and aggravation of anxiety is inevitable.
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