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Pray, meditate, and practice mindfulness or being present in the moment.It releases endorphins and increases blood flow to vital organs and tissues, holding on to stress chemicals. Self-care is taking time to address your personal needs, hygiene, and health.Therapy (via telemedicine) is a great way to talk through or process stressors and possible ways to address them.Many articles and soon-to-be books about COVID-fatigue are being published, and most come to a consensus of ways to handle it. People are looking for hope and also help so they can heal. With each of these responses, there is still a need for recovery and healing. Flop or Fawn: Collapse or give in to the threat, over-caring, people-pleasing, can’t say no, feels like a victim and exploited by others, craves acceptance or to fit inĪt this current time, our body, mind, and soul only have two possible responses to Covid-19 as a continuous stressor: freezing or fawning.Freeze: Become paralyzed, surreal feelings, space out, isolate self, hibernate or be lazy, brain fog, indecisive, resist taking action, wanting to hide from the world, feeling hopeless and lifeless.Flight: Evade the threat, panic, anxiety, over-worry, inability to stay still or relax, micro-manage, over-achieve.Fight: Resist, self-preservation, aggressive behavior, temper, outburst, can’t hear other points of view, dictatorial actions, demands of perfection.Most people have heard of fight-or-flight, but there are other coping responses - some you may have never heard of - that might better explain how most of the world is dealing with COVID-19: Coping skills sound great, but COVID-19 has not let up, and it has been a continuous threat in multiple areas of each of our lives while simultaneously overlapping its grip. This response is better understood as a coping skill we use to protect ourselves when a stressor or trigger occurs and/or when it is over. So what happens when we are subjected to this type of insult for an extended time? Our bodies will respond with the trauma-induced fight-or-flight response. There are higher reports of depression, stress, anxiety, alcohol or drug dependency, and suicides in the past year due to the pandemic. The human body, mind, and spirit are not designed to live with a constant stressor over a long period. As with any threat, one must recognize the stressors or triggers and the PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) that occurs with it. The inconsistent variation in our lives and the looming possibility of closures and lack of resources - on top of the questionable health implications short term and long term - leaves us feeling unstable and extremely vulnerable. In 2020, perhaps the most significant impacts are the ongoing triggers that continue to torture our mental psyche and well-being, including the overwhelming sense of a disorganized effort to truly stop, treat, protect, and cure humans from this virus. This virus can spread quickly with the possibility of a myriad of symptoms - or none at all - as well as the possibility of death. Since it first appeared in late 2019, the coronavirus has threatened the world with the ultimate trauma. It includes emotional burnout, tiredness with fear or frustration, and anxiety about all things pertaining to the coronavirus. I am referring to the term “COVID-fatigue” or “pandemic-fatigue” as an emotional and psychological symptom that can manifest into detrimental physical signs when dealing with the challenges of COVID.ĬOVID fatigue is the sensation or feeling of being overwhelmed due to the current extended stressor. I am not talking about the clinical diagnosis of fatigue that occurs with patients who experience tiredness as a post-viral symptom.
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Sloan, MD, shares her thoughts on the challenges of COVID fatigue and how we can get through it together.Įveryone who’s tired of the COVID-19 global pandemic, please raise your hand! You, by definition, have “COVID fatigue”.