The COVID-19 epidemic that the world is struggling with continues to restrict our lives more and more every day. We are trying to spend this difficult process by staying at home as much as possible, but as the uncertainty about when this process will end continues, this situation may lead us towards anxiety and depression over time. Feeling anxiety in the face of the coronavirus threat is a normal reaction and this situation even allows us to take the necessary precautions, but our anxiety may increase from time to time because uncertainty is a situation that increases our anxiety level even more. Increased anxiety drags us towards depression over time. For these reasons, spending these days at home by adapting to the process rather than waiting for it to pass will make us feel better. Because this process, which we do not know when it will end, may push us to the limit of tolerance and make us extremely angry, tense, uneasy, and on alert at all times. In order not to experience all these negative situations or to get rid of them if we do, it is necessary to pay attention to some important points.
1. Try to sleep regularly. Since you do not go to work, school, etc., there may be shifts in sleeping and waking hours. In these cases, people are not sufficiently rested. The amount of sleep required for people to wake up rested varies from person to person.
2. Prepare a list for yourself. Let this list be a list of what you will do that day. The list may consist of household chores or daily tasks that you need to do. Completing the items on the list will make you feel better and allow you to spend your time at home more productively.
3. Do not skip your personal care. We may not pay attention to these during our holidays, but not doing these in the future may cause us to let ourselves go more.
4. Spend time with the people you live with at home. For example, sit at the table together, chat, eat together, play games, watch movies, look at old photos. Be careful not to constantly talk about coronavirus on your agenda.
5.Set new goals for yourself. Remember that these days will end one day. You will go out again, go to school, work, meet your friends, walk on the beach. , you will sit somewhere, chat with your neighbors, drink your coffee, and do other activities you want to do. You can also add new ones to these activities. You can plan these during this process and implement them after the process is over.
Remember that keeping this issue on your agenda will not benefit you much, by changing your agenda a little, you can spend these difficult times more productively and fully. In this way, we can make this process more tolerable by preventing our anxiety from increasing further.
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