Uncertainty
If you follow social media, you may feel enjoy sleeping and hide your head under the covers. Old research shows that chronic TV viewers and news followers have high concerns because everything they see makes them feel like it is happening in front of the door of the house. The coronavirus has arrived, and some news appears to exaggerate fears.
Reducing the risk of the virus is not a good preventative solution, but excessive coverage, increased coverage and exaggerated reactions are not a good option either. It's easy to be afraid when you see these drastic changes happening and encounter uncertainty. The key to a solution is to remain balanced and sensitive and avoid stressing yourself. In some situations, panic due to radical and unknown changes occurs faster than the coronavirus itself.
Psychology of uncertainty
If you are like most people, uncertainty can cause you tremendous anxiety. Why? Our brain is constantly updating our world, making judgments about what is safe and what is not. Because of aversion to ambiguity or uncertainty, the brain composes in one day hundreds of types of untested (unrealistic) stories, because uncertainty equals risk to him. If our brain does not know what will happen, it will not be able to keep us out of harm's way. He always assumes the worst (exaggeration of the disaster), over-allocates threats (I am the one who will be hit) and quickly jumps to conclusions. (Our brain will do almost anything for certainty), and you are determined to overestimate threats and reduce your ability to deal with them - all in the name of survival.
And when certainty is questioned, your response to stress becomes fruitless, which immediately stimulates your response to pressure and kicks you on your back in an attempt to get you to work and be safe. Waiting for certainty may seem like a torture that fills your body with millions of small wounds. Sometimes our brain prefers to know a result in one way or another to reduce the severity of the situation, and studies show that when a person expects pain, he expects him to a degree of calm more than he expects to have uncertainty. The name (waiting for death is more difficult than death itself). For example, scientists have found that job uncertainty has a far greater impact on your health than actually losing a job. Statistics also show that it is much more likely that a person continues to risk after a car accident than a degree of risk after an accident after a series of psychological setbacks. British researchers discovered that study participants who knew for sure that they would experience a traumatic electric shock felt calm and were less anxious than those who were told that their chance of getting an electric shock was only 50%.
Do the basics, but don't panic
Every idea that enters the mind eventually finds somewhere in the body to bear the burden. Your mentality during this crisis is everything, and your point of view is the most powerful thing you can control in a situation outside your control. Yes, these diseases are frightening, but fear, panic and anxiety are not the best preparedness against danger. Rather, they add surgeons to the infection - another layer of stress that can endanger the immune system and make us more vulnerable to the virus, paradoxically. Molecular scientists have discovered that some stressful thinking patterns, such as rumination and pessimism, are. So in addition to washing our hands, we need to clean our minds to make up for catastrophic thinking
Yes, things will be different, but ask yourself whether it is the virus that frightens you or the radical and uncontrollable changes and uncertainty that frightens you. Meanwhile, as soon as we stay informed and follow what the experts tell us, our best ally is to find the opportunity in the tribulation, which is escalating, which is outside our control and make the most of the inevitable position step by step every time which will contribute to Your well-being and your well-being.