WELLNESS WISDOM: Scaling THE SILVER LININGS In COVID-19 Climes

THIS STORY IS NOT ABOUT HOW TO COPE WITH ANXIETY IN COVID-19 BUT MORE ABOUT HOPE IN THIS PERIOD OF LOCKDOWN.

- Alaokika Bharwani

A part of anxiety is also a feeling of grief and loss in these unprecedented times. The loss of our sense of normalcy, our routines, economic loss, not being able to see our loved ones, cancelled holidays, weddings, travel, all things we took for granted. Words like social distancing, quarantine, isolation, which were not part of our vocabulary, are now woven into our daily sentences. Nowadays our first words uttered to our loved ones who live with us are not “how are you? but “have you washed your hands”?

What a reality we are living in, aren’t we? Who thought that an invisible enemy would halt human life and shut the entire world down? Nothing in recent times has prepared us for this and has left us completely unprepared on how to grapple with it. This new reality is marked with much uncertainty and loss. And this prolonged uncertainty gives rise to so much anxiety, fear and sadness. Where do we go from here? What will the world look like tomorrow? Will we ever get to hug our loved ones? Our jobs, our livelihoods. “This world, it’s too much “I’m hearing this so frequently than ever, and more so with my clients. And I don’t even disagree, it is “too much”!