COVID-19 Fatigue
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Exhaustion and impatience are creating new risks as cases soar in parts of the world.
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It's time to develop coping skills, which include exercise and talking about our fears and stress.
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After months of dealing with the fallout from COVID-19, many people have pandemic fatigue. It’s a very real feeling of exhaustion stemming from the effects of the novel coronavirus on your life — from stay-at-home orders to the fear of getting ill to losing jobs.
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Psychologist Carisa Parrish provides tips you can use to keep up these effective practices, avoid coronavirus “safety fatigue” or “burnout,” and protect yourself, your family and others from COVID-19.
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If you are sick and tired of worrying about COVID-19, you’re probably suffering from pandemic fatigue, and you are not alone. While we all need to follow new, stricter public health guidelines to help drive down COVID-19 infections, we also need to find ways to take care of our mental health.
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The news: There have been increasing numbers of anecdotal reports of a link between surviving covid-19 and developing mental health problems in recent months. Now we have some numbers to back those reports up. A new study, published in Lancet Psychiatry, has found that almost one in five people who have had covid-19 go on to be diagnosed with a mental illness within three months of testing positive.