Social Mind Matters
With the Coronavirus Pandemic starting last year, one of the things I noticed during the 1st lockdown was how my mental health was being affected. Like a lot of people I was struggling to figure out what this actually meant, how it was going to affect me and my family, trying to "medically" assess me, my Wife, my Son, Parents, Grandparents, In-Laws. Trying to analyse what the media was trying to tell us, trying to figure out what the government was trying to tell us, trying to analyse what this new "science" was all about. Like all of us there was a whole new vocabulary that needed to be explored, just trying to survive. I very quickly realised that I didnt have the coping mechanisims to be able to deal with this and came to understand that the media were spinning what the goverment were telling us, the goverment really didnt know what they were telling us as they were learning about this at the same time. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter were all lit with opinions a...