Have you ever thought about what will happen when quarantine is really over?We all have flaws and qualities, but in this quarantine, were the flaws the protagonists?More consulted and identified.
For example, there’s a crack in the ceiling that’s always been there, but now that we’ve been at home for so long, we’re seeing it more and more deeply and it bothers us even if we don’t fix it. people who share the forties.
- On the one hand.
- It is because anxiety amplifies and strengthens our imperfections; on the other hand.
- The perception of the detained interlocutors focuses on dysfunctional characteristics; a perfect combination: our mistakes are compounded and we perceive more widely those made by others.
Therefore, it is not that we are more ‘defective’, but that we see more defects, because sharing three hours with a person is different from sharing all day, now we have more time to focus our attention, the formula is:
Boredom containment time kills distracting factors (useful tips for surviving in isolation) anxiety.
Once everything is recommended has been done and the motivating stimuli are over, boredom, intolerance, moodiness and, of course, problems with the defects of others and ourselves begin to appear. So far, how are we going to do it once we’re quarantined?
I’ve compiled a series of stories and comments from patients who have really caught my attention and who, in a way, predict a number of behaviors that we can have when quarantine ends.
Something like systematic tics in our bodies, attitudes and emotions that can develop in the early days of resocialization will depend on the degree of responsible awareness we have after quarantine.
A woman told me she dreamed of meeting her best friend after she was 40, they met face to face, looked each other in the eye and she approached her friend very fondly and hugged her. her friend pushed her vigorously.
She immediately realized the mistake she had made, put her hands on her distressed and frightened head and then woke up.
Another patient dreamed that when he went out on the street everything was deserted, with broken cars, agreements made, houses looted, in the distance, passers-by who seemed undead were trying to approach him to give him a mortal bite.
He started running because he had forgotten his mask and when he turned around he had the image of the virus in the foreground, he woke up startled.
The allegory of the undead integrates the coronavirus and accelerates the fear of leaving the house.
Another man went out to take out the trash and, on his way to the dumpster, found his neighbor, who was also his friend.
When they met, they went to say hello and kiss, until they realized what they were doing and withdrew.
A patient was in his car on his way to the Chinese supermarket in his city, after a street check-up they took the temperature at the market entrance, which made him nervous.
He came in and started sweating and getting hot, he was short of breath: almost a panic attack. He’s leaving, but on the way out, there’s another checkup. When he was hot, he was tested again and the man was afraid of having a fever, which accelerated his heart rate and made him sweat even more, while thinking about all the complications he would have if he were hospitalized, but no, the check was negative.
He realized that all the cleaning of the supermarket was bleached and he felt a little drunk; the outdoors calmed him down and oxygenated him, and he realized the paranoia he had just created!
The theme of the supermarket is not something that is taken seriously, in fact, it is one of the few opportunities that are allowed from the beginning of the pandemic, besides walking dogs.
The desire to go out are so great that going to the supermarket has become a great event, people dress up, change clothes as if they go to a party, pick up their bags and go happy to a supermarket near their house.
Interesting things happen in the supermarket in relation to people’s attitudes, phenomena analyzed by psychologists and sociologists who study human behavior.
Before people went back and forth with the basket carefree, rubbing inadvertently and even apologizing when they touched each other, however, these days it is not the same, in some cases we have gone from a protective warning to a paranoid conspiracy: if you see a person in mask who comes with his car, another person turns to 90 euros in the nearest aisle.
However careful hygiene is, it is impossible to control all fronts. In the same supermarket, an infected person can cough and stick their hands in their mouths. And with a palm full of bacteria, grab a cart. leaves, leaving the cart bars contaminated.
Soon, the cart is available and someone picks it up. In addition to taking the basket, it is also contaminated with the viruses found there. If you spontaneously touch your face or nose, the path to infection is ready.
So what will happen the day after the pandemic is over?Will we continue intensive sterilization care? Certainly, certain hygiene rituals will prevail over time, even when quarantine is over.
For example, changing shoes and not coming home with the same shoes that we walk along the sidewalks or on the street, is something that we hadn’t naturally thought about before and that can be one of the lessons that quarantined us.
One of the changes that seems to be taking shape is remote work, telework is an alternative that came to stay.
People will travel less, there will be less pollution, crowding of people in offices, spending on lunches, renting apartments by companies, etc. , although there is also the economic deterioration of many companies that live off the consumer public.
Will other people continue to be a threat of contagion?What will the style of greeting look like in the future?Will we continue to drink the alcohol gel in the car or in the bag?
And how are we going to open the doors to businesses, banks, restaurants, universities, schools and our friends’ homes?We can use our elbows, the part of the body we never imagined would serve as an extra hand.
I’m very intrigued if we use public restrooms again at gas stations, restaurants or train stations. Also, when we’re desperate for a stomach ache or a full bladder, will these feelings overcome fear?
Will we continue with this feeling of contamination and environmental dirt once quarantine is complete?This feeling that makes us come home and feel the need to bathe and fill ourselves with alcohol to erase the viral traces accumulated in the outdoor environment. we have to change or we have to resist?
The truth is that almost no one has benefited from this quarantine, except people with social phobia, for whom being locked in their home perfectly helped them alleviate their symptoms, quarantine was a disadvantage for everyone.
However, every person on this planet has built its own meaning for this quarantine. As a result, there were not only about 40, but several, that eventually became a preventive strategy.
And each one, just as he built his own quarantine, tailored to him, will also build his own day later. In any case, the most important thing is to get out of this critical situation gracefully and with a little learning.
The pandemic is a fact, and it is up to each of us to build it as an opportunity to achieve something that can be capitalized to apply to other experiences. This is where the basis of learning is, literally and metaphorically: how and with what. Will we open these new doors when this is all over?