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Pandemics Can Be Stressful — 5 Strategies To Manage Your Anxiety
I have been having to give myself daily check-ins to reset.
Pandemics can be stressful. Prolonged isolation, fear of a new disease, dealing with the stressors of working from home with kids running around, or the financial stress of job loss is enough to give anyone anxiety. It certainly doesn’t help that the news gives us contradicting information and focuses primarily on negative news.
As someone with a history of anxiety, I have been having to think about how I manage my anxiety on a daily basis. I’m indoors too often, I’m working a full-time demanding job while at the same time trying to home school a four-year-old. Well, that’s not entirely true. Mostly I’m just making sure he doesn’t break everything or accidentally kill the dog while playing ninjas. He also likes to join in on my Zoom work meetings, which is entertaining, but absurdly anxiety-inducing, especially when the Zoom meeting is with my boss. What it boils down to is I’m out of my routine, which always throws me off on all levels. I’m not getting enough exercise, I’m snacking too much, and I get no alone time. I need my alone time.
Back to the point, I’ve been thinking about anxiety a lot, and I hope my experience can help those of you out there facing the same anxieties right now.
