Preparing for a long haul with the virus may help ease the anxiety of covid’s ebbs and surges
the latest development cause for concern, not panic. “This will end,” Anthony S. Fauci, the president’s top medical adviser, vowed Wednesday. “I promise you that this will end.”But our brains are constantly trying to impose order and predictability on our surroundings and circumstances. Faced with two years of disruption and uncertainty, strong reactions are only natural.
Fear is also very damaging to mental health, Koenen said. She advised moving from a “fear-based approach” to the pandemic to one that emphasizes coping and problem-solving. In areas prone to earthquakes and wildfires, for example, mapping out aStory continues below advertisement Another important part of the strategy is to limit consumption of news via the media and information fromIn Saginaw, Mich., 85-year-old Bob Brasseur said he sees no point in worrying about the latest twist in the pandemic, though he is not vaccinated and has no plans to be.
Brasseur said he has no sense of how the pandemic will progress or how long he’ll be living with surges of the virus. But the unknowns don’t bother him.“A virus is a virus. It has to work its way out,” he said. “Maybe this covid-19 will hang around. Who knows? I’m not a doctor.”In Aledo, Tex., Lisa Self said she is still exhausted after a lengthy stay in the hospital for covid-19. And now omicron could be coming.Still, neither Self nor her husband believe in vaccines.
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