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7 Tips for Creating Normalcy in Abnormal Times
These tips can help you help yourself with depression, anxiety, and other issues in this unusual situation.
If, like so many others, you are currently working reduced hours, furloughed, working from home, or not working at all — your routine has been interrupted.
When your routine gets shot like that it can have multiple consequences. You are likely to feel out-of-sorts, distressed, depressed, frustrated, uncertain, sad, and numerous other totally human emotions.
It does not feel normal but it totally is. We are generally creatures of habit. When our habitual behaviors are interrupted — especially for a prolonged period — we can be thrown off in multiple ways.
You are not alone in dealing with this! Millions of people across the country are experiencing a similar situation. To be fair, it’s not the same as yours because everyone is unique. Our environments, family, living situation, and many other factors differ.
There are some ways that you can create a new normal and new routines to handle this. These are some of the things I am doing or that others I know are making use of to help themselves work through the negativity, depression, and other emotions an interrupted routine can produce.
