This process is not a holiday. This is a quarantine. The word quarantine (Italian quarantina "forty days") gained this meaning because people traveling by ship in the Middle Ages were forbidden to go ashore for forty days when they reached a place.
It is necessary to act with this awareness in this process. Of course, panicking does not mean living in anxiety and fear. But we must not forget this in order to be conscious, to be and to remain. American psychologist Abraham Maslow says that humanity has a hierarchy of needs pyramid.
We can only be who we are if we complete our needs starting from the bottom level.
According to Maslow, a person's internal motivation is more important than external motivation. It is the person's internal needs that will provide internal motivation. These needs are in a hierarchy and it would not make sense to meet the needs at the higher level without meeting the needs at the lower level within this hierarchy.
Maslow's Pyramid of Needs;
Physiological Needs: Hunger, thirst and similar basic vital needs
/> Need for Security: Protection from dangers caused by external factors
Social Needs: Belonging, love, acceptance, social life, etc.
Need for Valuation/Respect: Status, success, reputation, recognition
Self-esteem Realization: Development, successful completion of a job, creativity
Based on this, in these pandemic (corona) days we are in, it would be meaningless to move on to other steps or tell people to move on without first meeting the first step of the pyramid.
This process is “At Home” "stay" is said, but it also contains many contradictions such as the fact that people have to work. There may be tensions in communication between spouses or parents and children at home. It is normal to experience this process because the society is tense and the world is tense. Feelings of guilt may be very high. A person can still blame himself for the stress he experiences. This kind of thinking will again harm the person himself.
He/she should take care to stay calm.
He/she should be able to empathize with the people he/she interacts with at home.
He/she should maintain his/her own internal motivation. he can do the things he loves)
These days There should also be a suggestion that this will end and everything will be okay again. Especially if there are children at home, their anxiety should be minimized as this process may cause post-traumatic stress disorder in the future. In order to do this, we must first relieve our own anxiety.
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