Beth, a change management consultant for a New York-based firm, said of pre-pandemic weekends: “Because you’re doing something different, it feels longer. You’re having an experience.
Prior to the pandemic, Beth would feel anxious about specific upcoming events. A particularly demanding week ahead might trigger an increase in “scaries.” After the shutdown in New York, Beth was no longer traveling or commuting, which lightened her schedule. But because her job entails coaching leaders to communicate through change, the challenges of the pandemic kept her and her clients busy. That also meant helping the corporate world mitigate the effects of burnout.
Having to hold others’ emotions in addition to our own has always been an occupational hazard of mental health work, but the current level of emotional demand is completely new. In her patients, Mitchell says she has seen the “scaries” increase “with the caveat that all symptoms seem to be in upsurge — anxiety across the board.”
“Most of us don’t do brilliantly with the unknown,” said Mitchell. Add to this months of sociopolitical unrest and division, and you’ve got a national problem. She also notes an uptick in substance use, so that “Sundays might also mean recovery, hangovers, regret.”baked into our capitalist system . Thus, while giving ourselves grace and implementing self-care routines and setting boundaries will continue to be necessary for daily maintenance and burnout prevention, what we really need to do is rethink our relationship to “productivity.” Even amidst unprecedented viral spread and death, human rights violations, racial injustice, election strife and insurrection, we continue to expect productivity of ourselves and others.
THINK WTAF is a Sunday scary? Jesus
THINK A yr ago my office closed for few weeks.We were hit hard&had to use our own computers to call patients that everything is ok &we are here to help.When we opened I actually had an anxiety attack driving to wrk &crying. I made it.Sunday’s are still hard for me to sleep.
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