All people experience loss in life, but for the first time, we are all experiencing loss at the same time, and due to the same root cause. The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred conversations about anxiety, stress, fear, loneliness, disappointment, confusion, and other valid emotions and experiences. But in my own experience, none of those labels seem to wholly represent the…
Listening and understanding others have brought a different perspective of relatedness recently. We are inundated with the information about the Coronavirus by the minute. This information is tragic and overwhelming. The discussions, whether in therapy sessions or on social media about the Coronavirus Pandemic, have one important theme that the world has changed in the last couple of months, and…
As the days pass by and people are adjusting to enforced social distancing in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, mental health providers, used to dealing with isolation and loneliness issues, are faced with an unfamiliar social and psychological situation: the effects of social isolation and loneliness in uncertain times. While the emphasis is on how to deal with the…