#1345 All the Best COVID-19 Coping Mechanisms in One Place
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 26 March 2020
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 3/26/2020
Today we take a look at the toll the pandemic is taking on mental health and offer a wide range of coping mechanisms to help get everyone through.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Trumps Dumbest Statements on the Pandemic - The Majority Report with Sam Seder - Air Date 3-18-20
Sam breaks down the failure of the Trump admin.
Ch. 2: A Slight Temporary Relief - Social Distance - Air Date 3-18-20
Lori Gottlieb of "Dear Therapist" talks us through how to stay sane.
Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby shares some therapeutic practices to get through the pandemic.
Ch. 4: Tips for surviving isolation! (Tinder Update) - The Last Post - Air Date 3-20-20
Tinder in an age of Coronavirus. Dating, Jane Austen style.
Ch. 5: Adam Grant On the frontlines and in peoples' minds - Epidemic - Air Date 3-24-20
Understanding the psychological elements at play during the course of a pandemic
Ch. 6: Dealing with COVID-19 with Buddhist Jack Kornfield - The Tim Ferriss Show - Air Date 3-12-20
Tim and Buddhist Jack Kornfield discuss mentally dealing with the pandemic.
Ch. 7: Cüking - The Bugle - Air Date 3-20-20
Exploring new art forms from home.
Ch. 8: Coping During COVID-19 - Happier with Gretchen Rubin and Liz Craft - Air Date 3-14-20
Gretchen Rubin and Liz Craft discuss coping mechanisms for the pandemic and social distancing.
Ch. 9: How To Preserve Your Mental Health - Coronavirus Daily Briefing - Air Date 3-19-20
Preparing for the pandemic is not just about protecting yourself physically but preparing yourself mentally.
Ch. 10: Tips for surviving isolation! - The Last Post - Air Date 3-20-20
A few tips for what you can do to stave off boredom at home.
Ch. 11: "And the People Stayed Home" by Kitty O'Meara - Common Censored - Air Date 3-16-20
Eleanor shares the viral silver-lining poem of the pandemic.
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 12: The peaceful upside - James from Sacramento, CA
Ch. 13: A trip to the grocery and liquor store - Alan from Connecticut
Ch. 14: Bread & Roses & Roger too - Alan from Connecticut
Ch. 15: Solidarity forever - Eammon from Orange County, California
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 16: Final comments with nothing to add
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- Derailed - The Depot
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- Arizona Moon - Cholate
- Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning best of left podcast in which we shall learn |
| 0:07.5 | about the toll the pandemic is taking on mental health and offer a wide range of coping |
| 0:12.9 | mechanisms to help get everyone through. |
| 0:16.9 | As is our new tradition because non-traditional times call for it non-traditional podcasts |
| 0:21.7 | we're doing a quick emotional state check-in here at the beginning how we're feeling |
| 0:27.3 | plus Amanda and I actually have some tips from two people who have basically been training |
| 0:33.6 | for this for years both working and living at home together for four consecutive years |
| 0:41.3 | now. |
| 0:42.3 | Yeah that's the amount of time we've been working together at home. |
| 0:46.4 | Yeah so first how we've been feeling I've personally had a long string of headaches |
| 0:54.3 | they're in line with the normal kind of headaches I get tension shoulder like shoulder |
| 1:01.2 | tension shoulder pain that creeps up into my head but normally I mean would you say I |
| 1:06.3 | get one a week on average on average yeah I guess on average that's probably true yeah |
| 1:12.5 | you've had a long history with this but they definitely been worse yeah as a so sometimes |
| 1:18.1 | I can go for really long periods without any sometimes they get bunched up and the last |
| 1:23.6 | week and a half I would say like 60 to 80% of the days for sure but even the time within |
| 1:32.4 | the day I'm like taking hot showers trying to relax eventually taking ibuprofen or |
| 1:39.9 | you know something similar yeah we're going through our supply very quickly which is |
| 1:43.7 | un-richen it yeah I try to avoid taking too many but so that's been what's weighing on |
| 1:50.4 | me recently right now I'm in a lucky state like somehow it has backed off of it but the |
| 1:56.9 | last three days I've been okay yeah yeah we need to put a little more effort into some |
| 2:01.5 | physical activity trying to go somewhere where not everyone else is also out for their physical |
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