172 SelfWork: Special Episode: Managing Quarantine Anxiety - Compassionate and Common Sense Tips
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
This is a special episode of SelfWork to try and help you handle the anxiety that you may be feeling with the emergence of the Corona-19 virus worldwide. Especially if you're already managing anxiety or depression, or are someone who struggles not to be governed by your emotions, then the fear and grief that this pandemic brings can be very hard to handle. We're all dealing with fear and grief simultaneously, and that's very difficult. We'll talk about three different aspects of anxiety: Handling being at home (whether you're alone or with eight others), managing the fear itself; and managing relationships with others who may not be realizing the impact of their actions on you and/or your children.
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| 0:00.0 | This is self-work and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. |
| 0:13.0 | At self-work we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world |
| 0:19.0 | and what to do about them. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Dr. Margaret and self-work is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes today for your own self-work. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome to self-work. I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford, a clinical psychologist out of Fable, Arkansas, and |
| 0:36.0 | this is a special episode. All of us are on a new journey together, and it's not one anyone |
| 0:41.1 | wanted to be on, obviously. COVID-19 has changed everything and as I read |
| 0:45.5 | post from my closed group some people are struggling more than others to manage their |
| 0:50.1 | anxiety and help their kids as well. Everything's been called off. There are many who's their So staying at home means not being able to escape or at least trying to evade abuse or addiction |
| 1:06.0 | or being in much closer proximity to family members that are just difficult and you're trying to manage those feelings |
| 1:12.3 | Some of you are caring for others who have disabilities or dementia. |
| 1:17.0 | Some of you weren't coping very well before and now feel lost. |
| 1:21.0 | I've talked before about the four responses to fear. |
| 1:24.8 | Flight, fight, freeze, or fold. In these times flight might look like denial of the reality |
| 1:31.0 | of the danger or something quite different. |
| 1:34.1 | Trying to actually get far enough away physically to escape. |
| 1:37.8 | Fight, that probably looks like the people who are starting groups to help, volunteers who are |
| 1:42.1 | picking up food or helping an older person with a task. |
| 1:46.0 | The freeze response are the people who are feeling lost and confused. |
| 1:49.8 | Maybe you haven't bought anything or made any plans. |
| 1:52.8 | And fold, that's where you just feel helpless |
| 1:56.6 | and almost feel like others need to care for you. |
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