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Should Our Mental Health Lead this Decision?
As the countdown clock is ticking for announcements to be made by government about restrictions lifting in the coming week. I am someone who sits here somewhat anxiously awaiting what will be announced.
I know that Astrologically it is predicted that we are heading for a shockwave. An unexpected change and restrictions that will impact our businesses and our lives. Will be it be a full lockdown, a delay in lifting restrictions or will be heading into a tiered system once more. Who knows!
What I do know though, is that I for one, am very concerned about the impact on our mental health all of of this is having. The biggest damage from the last 14 months is not necessarily your bank balance, it is your mental health.
In my work I see people every week who are struggling massively with social anxiety that kicked in as restrictions were lifted before. We have spent so long tucked away in our homes, in our isolation that we are nervous, anxious about not only how to conduct ourselves in groups and society, but how we will be perceived. We have lost our old lives and our old identities, so who do present ourselves as right now,? If in truth we ourselves, are not so sure who are anymore.
I have seen numerous suicides over the last 12 months, all young men, in their late twenties and early thirties, who could not cope with the isolation, the loneliness, the emptiness, that the emotional state of what’s the point, took over the mindset and emotional state enough for…