082 - Mental Health Q&A Round 2: Reframing, Dealing With Uncertainty, Dismantling Stigma, and More

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Medicine, News, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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How do you deal with things you can't control? How do we decide what actions are right for ourselves and our families without judging others in the process? What is contributing to COVID-19 stigma? How do we consider the future without feeling overwhelmed? Clinical psychologist Dr. Laura Murray returns for another round of mental health Q&A with Stephanie Desmon.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Public Health On Call, a new podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
0:12.7	Our focus is the novel coronavirus.
0:15.2	I'm Josh Sharfstein, a faculty member at Johns Hopkins, and also a former secretary of Maryland's health department.
0:21.6	Our goal with this podcast is to bring evidence and experts to help you understand today's
0:26.9	news about the novel coronavirus and what it means for tomorrow.
0:30.5	If you have questions, you can email them to public health question at jhh.edu.
0:36.3	That's public health question at jh.hu.edu for future podcast episodes.
0:42.4	It's Friday, so today we answer listener questions.
0:45.9	Today's topic is mental health during the time of COVID-19.
0:49.9	Stephanie Desmond talks to Laura Murray, a clinical psychologist at Johns Hopkins.
0:54.9	They discuss how to handle feelings about people who refuse to follow social distancing rules
0:59.7	and how to prevent COVID stigma. Let's listen.
1:03.9	Thanks so much for joining me. Thank you for having me, Stephanie.
1:07.1	So we're going to do some more mental health questions and answers. I know people still have
1:12.5	lots on their mind regarding mental health during this very long period of shutdowns, some
1:21.3	eased openings, you know, things are changing every day, really. And I'd like to know sort of,
1:27.3	I mean, I've been looking at these pictures of people gathering
1:30.7	huge parties, people on the beach.
1:34.8	And it's starting to make me think about this question, which is sort of when you see
1:39.5	people behave like this, how do you deal with sort of what you can control and what you
1:43.8	can't when it comes to other people's behavior? Because I know that's something that's preoccupying me a little bit. It's like you see these pictures and you think they're supposed to stay inside. They're supposed to have masks. They're supposed to stay away from each other. So tell me, you know, how we should really be coping with that. Such a good question and definitely something I think we're all struggling with. You know, I think one of the common recommendations we give is it's smart to always
2:07.2	sort of step back and say, can I control this? And what can I not? And I think you're already taking
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