Bonus Episode: Managing Your Mental Health during COVID 19 with Lynn Bufka, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

Kim Mills

Health & Fitness, Life Sciences, Science, Mental Health

4.3 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The new coronavirus has upended our lives, compelling us to stay in our homes, keep our social distance and be wary of everything we touch. Some of us are teleworking but others have lost jobs. This global pandemic touches everyone and it is causing many of us to feel stress, anxiety and hypervigilance. Our guest, Dr. Lynn Bufka, senior director of practice research and policy at the American Psychological Association, and a practicing psychologist herself, has helpful advice for coping, adjusting and making our lives as normal and stress-free as possible. Join us online August 6-8 for APA 2020 Virtual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The coronavirus has upended countless lives here at home and around the world.
0:11.0	We've all become too familiar with new terms, shelter in place, flatten the curve, social distancing.
0:18.0	The stock market is bouncing wildly. Just this week we saw the greatest number of
0:21.9	unemployment applications in U.S. history, and there's still no toilet paper at the grocery
0:26.8	store if you can even go to the grocery store. So are you feeling stressed yet, anxious,
0:32.5	at your wits end because you're trying to telework and the kids are making noise in the next room?
0:36.9	And would someone
0:37.8	please walk the dog? Welcome to speaking of psychology, the biweekly podcast of the American
0:44.1	Psychological Association that explores the connections between psychology and everyday life.
0:49.3	I'm your host, Kim Mills. Joining me today is Dr. Lynn Buffka, Senior Director of Practice Research and Policy
0:56.0	here at APA, the American Psychological Association. Dr. Buffka is also a practicing psychologist
1:02.2	and has been talking constantly to journalists who are covering the coronavirus pandemic. Normally,
1:08.3	Lynn and I would be in the APA recording studio together, but because of the virus, we are teleworking and sheltering in place. So, we're talking about the pandemic. Normally, Lynn and I would be in the APA recording studio together, but because of the virus,
1:12.2	we are teleworking and sheltering in place. So, Lynn, welcome to speaking of psychology.
1:17.2	Thank you for inviting me.
1:18.7	So for the last couple of weeks, you've been talking almost nonstop to reporters who are
1:23.1	trying to present information that will help their readers and listeners cope in these strange times.
1:28.3	What are they asking you and what kinds of tips have you been giving them?
1:31.8	Well, they're asking me all the time. Are people stressed? And of course, people are going to
1:35.7	feel some degree of stress right now. This is a new situation. It's unprecedented. And trying to
1:42.4	figure out how do we cope with something that nobody in who's alive
1:46.7	today can remember ever having happened in our country before. We don't have a roadmap.
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