COPING WITH RE-ENTRY ANXIETY AFTER COVID

Posted on 13 July, 2021 by sanjeev

Are you having trouble coping with your everyday lifestyle? Have you struggled with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, grief, trauma, or need help navigating through other emotional issues? Please allow inner healing the best online psychological counselling in India provides best stress relief therapy for psychological stress treatment.Inner Healing manual has been prepared by experts in the area of mental health from across the country. With COVID-19 being declared a pandemic and with more and more people being affected directly or indirectly, there is a need to provide psychological first aid to relieve their distress and prevent them from developing more serious mental health issues. As a first step, this manual outlines the counselling that can be offered to individuals diagnosed with or awaiting test results for COVID-19, the family members of these individuals and frontline workers involved in the care of these individuals.

About a year ago, it was hard to imagine what life would be like today. Now, looking back, in the midst of a global pandemic, it’s difficult to imagine life as it used to be. No wonder some are resisting the shift back to their old routine. Yes, COVID-19 Re-Entry Anxiety is real, and it’s becoming prevalent as we slowly return to society. Still at some point, we’ve got to get back to living. So while quarantine restrictions are slowly lifting and more people are becoming vaccinated, there’s a few things we can do to ease our way back into the world without developing COVID-19 Re-Entry Anxiety.

The objective of this manual is to guide the counsellors in understanding and addressing the mental health needs of the individuals, who are awaiting results of COVID-19 tests, confirmed COVID-19 individuals, health care workers working in COVID hospitals and their family members. The counsellors can aid these individuals in getting reliable information and alleviate their distress. This manual gives a framework and an algorithm about responding to people when they are distressed and supporting them during these difficult times. In addition, it has details on how the counsellor can take care of themselves during the COVID-19 pandemic

Support systems, routines uprooted

It’s important to understand what this experience has been like for children and adults.

The things people used to rely on for connection and support were suddenly changed. People experienced physical and financial losses. People close to them died or became ill children, especially, were worried about their parents and about exposing their grandparents.

They’ve habituated to an indoor way of life, apart from friends, classmates and relatives. How do they reenter the world again without being retraumatized?

Children are vulnerable

Children may be resilient, but the pandemic has had an emotional and developmental impact on them. They need guidance and support to understand what they are feeling and what venturing out again means for their future.

They’re likely to experience reentry anxiety when returning to pre-pandemic activities as well as unease and stress about what things will be like going forward. They also take their cues from the adults around them.

Conclusion

To summarise, current guidelines of inner healing  aim is to support the recovery of the patient in such a way that their immediate distress is normalised and managed, their specific concerns are addressed, coping skills are enhanced, and hope perspective is instilled. To help counsellors remember the core techniques easily and quickly. A counsellor/volunteer may often find cross-over between techniques such that few techniques are more frequently used than others, few are simultaneously clubbed, or few may be reversed in order. Thus, health care professionals are encouraged to modify, adapt and tailor their preset intervention approach based on guidelines described below to fit the ecology of the culture, place, type and severity of distress of the patients with COVID-19.Inner healing is with you