Tracking Emotions as Part of a Daily Routine During a Pandemic

If you’re like many, you probably have your calendar marked off with how many days you’ve been stuck at home during this “new normal.” We all want to get back to work, back to school, and back to our lives as we knew them before social distancing and quarantine were being included with #saferathome on social media.  If you’re among the lucky ones, then working from home or distance learning are old hat for you, so being quarantined may make little difference in your everyday life outside of community or state restrictions and closures. For the rest, these new conditions and restrictions on work, school, and leaving the house can take their toll. Gearing up in gloves and a mask to head to the supermarket and sanitizing everything daily can have a negative impact on a person’s energy and their positive thoughts.  The effects of being quarantined may include: depression, anxiety, PTSD, irritability and other trauma-related mental health disorders which are in direct correlation to factors such as the length of the quarantine and the feelings of boredom and loneliness that often accompany self-isolation. Thus, the longer the quarantine, the greater the chance of feeling bored, lonely, or developing depression.  To help counteract the negative effects of a quarantine situation, keeping a daily schedule and an emotions and activity tracker can help foster motivation, reduce stress, and may act as an anchor in helping to re-center you. There is a plethora of research ...
Source: World of Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tags: Self-Help Boredom Busyness coronavirus COVID-19 Hobbies Meditation routine social distancing Source Type: blogs