For many of us, being asked to stay at home is stretching our abilities to cope with life. Every human has a limited bandwidth to deal with life’s challenges. Being cooped up at home for a month, to help flatten the curve, raises the floor of our personal bandwidth. Our ability to cope with the challenges of COVID-19 shrinks. New additional challenges emerge: new schedules or lack thereof, loss of income, being around the same people 24/7 or being totally isolated, fear of illness or the potential loss of a loved one, wondering when and if we will get back to normal, just to name a few. How can we deal with these new challenges when we have even less emotional and intellectual energy? Fuses are shorter. Frustrations grow. How do we cope?
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