What a human characteristic. Will it change from now on? We will live together and see. While we were faced with a real risk that endangered our lives, we had some anxiety and fear along with our instinct to live. I would like to answer the question "What was anxiety?" by saying "anxiety is a natural emotion." It is an emotion that needs to be experienced like all other positive and negative emotions, and like all other emotions, when experienced in moderation, it does not harm our quality of life and even makes it easier for us to adapt to the situation. In my last article, I talked about constructive anxiety and touched on its positive aspects. Imagine what would happen if we never worried about the epidemic we are in? The precautions were not taken, we continued our daily lives instead of staying in our homes, and realized that everything was too late for us when the health system collapsed.
However, we used disinfectant at all times, experienced shortness of breath not because of the virus but because of intense panic attacks, obsessive people We are alone with parents whose complaints are increasing and who reflect this on their children with whom they spend time at home. When you write the worst-case scenario and draw your own picture in it in your mind, it is inevitable that you will become a slave to your anxiety. We have patients who create their own funeral scenarios and spend their days with these ideas. While struggling with these pessimistic thoughts, it is a matter of curiosity whether parents who say "my child gets bored, I try to prevent him from leaving the house, I have a hard time managing, I cannot cope with my child's concerns" can cope with their own thought systems.
If we cannot manage the situation, how will our children manage it? ? In addition to all this, humans, who are social beings, are not social these days. However, we must be social, one of the ways to continue our life in a healthy way is to socialize. I think based on this, we have recently focused on using social media and even started making live broadcasts and participating in these broadcasts. In this way, we prove our existence to a certain extent, even if we cannot socialize, we say that I am here, I am somewhere. How important is it for us to exist, to be able to exist. We were in a time when people became lonely and alienated. Among the references to being individual, we get rid of the collective point of view and highlight selfishness, empathize. We were in a time when we moved away from pleasure and indifference prevailed instead of caring. The virus fell like fire into the times when we embraced the idea that everyone was doing their own thing, that every sheep was hanged by its own leg, and used the motto of life as the motto of life: "Let the snake that does not touch me live a thousand lives."
We now realized that not every sheep is hanged by its own leg. We realized how the individual measures we take will affect all of us and determine our future. We have seen how a social person needs others not only for his own pleasure and enjoyment but also for the sake of continuing his life humanely. During this period, we once again understood the value of healthcare workers. At the end of January, I wrote an article about violence against doctors, and another doctor was subjected to violence. However, not only physicians but all healthcare professionals unfortunately experience violence in our society at all times. However, if we are trying to look to the future with hope in these days, we owe it to them. Instead of applauding them, let's embrace them with respect and love.
This epidemic, which affected not only our country but the whole world, showed us what happens to people and the societies they build when the health system collapses. Therefore, I hope that the respect and love we show to our healthcare professionals will not diminish when these days are over. Just like the values that make a family a family... Speaking of family, we understood better the value of our families with whom we spent more time together during this period. On the one hand, we had the opportunity to feel safe with the people we belong to, to take action that we had postponed, and to keep promises that we did not keep. There may be times when you feel helplessness, hopelessness, fatigue, burnout, and irritability. Share these with your circle. Try to get information from the right sources, stay healthy, don't forget your values.
With love…
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