Focus on What You Can Control
During hard times, control wins.
We were all submerged with the same terrible news of the past few months. People getting sick and dying, others (maybe even us) losing their employment, children scared and not understanding why school is closed. It can all feel too overwhelming.
When we lose complete control and we delve into the darker panicky side of our mind, our brain tends to shut down. The easier way to avoid this situation is to close your eyes and forget about it. But that is not healthy either. Instead of dealing with the issue at stake, we delay it until further notice without any certainty that it will make things better. Often, it will make everything worse.
What you can do to deal with the events
At first, we try to take it all in, gather as much information about the situation as we can. Unfortunately, we soon realize how desperate we are. The truth is that for most of us, what we do or say has no effect whatsoever on these external events happening to us.
It happened to me at the beginning of confinement. I was exhausting my mind following every news around the world about what was happening. Every new case, every new country infected, every hospitalization… and it didn’t help me to cope whatsoever.
