Action strategy
1, Maintaining the regularity and stability of life
The body is the cornerstone of our response to crisis events. Balanced diet to ensure the body's nutritional access, maintain the original sleeping habits, avoid staying up late, and have a regular schedule. You can make a life plan for yourself and invite family or friends to support and supervise yourself, but you don’t have a psychological burden if you can’t complete it. We only need stability within a time period (such as a week) and do not require perfect execution every day.
2. Reduce attention to negative information
When we receive negative information from the outside world, our stress system will be activated. Even if we do not realize it, our brain, muscles, and every organ will have a corresponding nervous reaction. In order to reduce the burden on them, it is best to specify how much time we spend every day to learn about news and news, control the time to go online, and understand information more from authoritative and reliable media.
3. Enrich your daily activities for yourself and your family
Arrange some leisure and entertainment or meaningful activities for yourself and your family, and turn your attention to activities that can make you comfortable and relax. For example, watching movies, TV, listening to music, drawing, reading books, playing games, exercising, taking a deep breath, taking a hot bath, doing housework, chatting with friends and family, etc.
4. Actively resolve unnecessary anxiety
We think about external information in different ways, which will have different effects on our emotions. To maintain a stable and healthy mood, we must look at what is happening now from a more positive and reasonable perspective:
(1) Pay more attention to the current progress and good news in solving the epidemic, and tell yourself that the crisis is only temporary and we have the ability to deal with it.
(2) Pay attention to the facts and data released by the official, understand medical protection knowledge related to the epidemic, and avoid psychological panic caused by unobjective and unscientific information.
(3) Review the past experience of successfully responding to crisis events, affirm the country and its own response capabilities, and enhance confidence.
(4) Tell yourself that most of the worries will not happen and allocate more attention to your current life.
(5) For concerns that may occur, we can think about how to solve this problem. When we master the response measures, our anxiety can be alleviated.
5. Obtaining social support from relatives and friends
Relatives and friends are important psychological support for people when dealing with crisis events. Crisis destroys people's sense of security. Emotional communication with family and friends can help us rebuild a sense of security and reduce the impact and impact of events. Keep in touch with relatives and friends every day, talk to them, share life, and find ways to help each other.
6. Proper catharsis and give the soul a fake
. When you feel that your emotions are very depressed, you can adjust it through emotional catharsis. The basic principle is not to harm yourself and others, such as writing catharsis, borrowing objects to vent, hit catharsis, stepping on balloon catharsis, etc. These methods can release the inner depression and avoid further aggravation of bad emotions.
7. Respond to policies, do a good job in personal protection
closely monitor the epidemic trends and school epidemic prevention policy requirements, strengthen confidence in defeating the epidemic, wear masks, wash hands frequently, and do not gather together. Understand the current epidemic situation with a scientific attitude and actively spread positive energy to fight the epidemic. Wearing a mask, washing hands frequently, avoiding gatherings, and reducing mobility are the most basic requirements and the highest level of protection.
text content in this article comes from the "Mental Health Guidance Manual for the Epidemic of Pneumonia caused by the New Coronavirus Infection"
published by Central China Normal University
