Pandemic, reacting to fears and finding new life projects
“What we are starting is not just any historical period but an exceptional past to deal with one pandemic that has been upsetting our lives for two years now. The beginning of each year has always been a period of possible changes and new programming but never, as in this year, is the need to find a strong psycho-emotional balance that favors recovery from every point of view of life psychological assistance has increased by 39% in the last year, but in many cases it has to rely only on the private sector because in the public it is insufficient or completely non-existent “confirms the dr. David Lazzari President of the National Council of the Order of Psychologists.
Pandemic, look for ways of resilience
“To seek psycho-emotional well-being – explains the Dr. Micaela Barnato EMDR Psychotherapist– it is necessary to support paths aimed at resilience, developing all the internal and external resources of the subject for promote their psychological and social well-being and to face the need of families (and of the community as a whole) to live with the fear of the repetition of such a sudden and disabling event. It is also necessary develop a new life project, addressing the attached emotionality and sudden consequent changes. Talking with mental health professionals about the way we feel helps to understand what it is and why it is happening to us by overcoming it and finding new strategies with which to better cope with the situation. Balanced nutrition, healthy lifestyle how to resume normal life habits that also include holistic practices, such as meditation, yoga, mindfulness, and then surrounding yourself with positive and happy people, cultivating positive thoughts help reinforce the adaptations. “
Pandemic, psycho-emotional well-being is an important factor for health
“Psycho-emotional well-being is one of the most important factors for health and quality of life – continues the Dr. Barnato– and the psychological care of the individual is now identified as one of the most effective prevention practices to avoid the development of diseases. It has in fact been shown on several occasions that a state of prolonged sadness or anxiety, in the long term the risk of incurable diseases increases. We must take care of these aspects so that they do not become chronic and develop worse pathologies. Today the individual urge to find a psychoaffective balance in one’s own or in the cohabiting family circle is increasingly strong.
Pandemic, reacting strongly to life events
“The condition to be sought -comments the Dr. Silvia Riboldi psychotherapist and consultant of the portal Mustela Formazioneinfanzia.it- is to know how to react in the best way to life events, without letting oneself be guided and carried away by negative, repetitive or highly persistent thoughts and overwhelming emotions. Often conditions of malaise or real pathologies (anxiety, panic attacks, depression …) arise from a continuous and exhausting struggle in not wanting to feel negative thoughts or emotions. Greater awareness, the deep understanding of not having to build a mathematical balance between positive and negative thoughts, emotions judged acceptable or not, is the first step towards that much-needed balance that allows you to face the different experiences living them firsthand instead of undergoing them. Among the professions that have suffered the greatest level of stress in the pandemic, there are above all those in health sector. Among them, the most common problem is stress and burnout which has reached important levels: it is estimated that at least one third of health workers in Italy they have suffered and are suffering from stress or, worse, burn out, that is, of exhaustion on an emotional, physical and mental level “.
Pandemic, it is necessary to visualize what makes us feel good
“We have the innate ability to plan, to dream, to visualize what makes us feel good, which can make us feel stronger, happier, safer. It is a skill that accompanies us throughout our life- concludes Micaela Barnato– and that helps us set goals, where to channel our attention and energy. Programming is part of a complex cognitive and emotional activity, as we do it we are somehow already experiencing and feeling what we want to achieve. In programming we visualize and therefore this gives direction to the mind and gives us images and emotions. The moments in which we are most likely to plan and set goals are the beginning of each new year, or the return of the summer holidays, etc. Moments in which there are restarts. A central goal is to achieve psycho-emotional well-being, given that it is the structure that allows us to function and to express our full potential ”. And then, following the opinion of the various experts we interviewed, let’s try to start again with balance and positivity to forget the years of the pandemic, not quite over yet.