COVID-19 Chapter 6: Mental Health

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🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Welcome to Chapter 6 of our Anatomy of a Pandemic series exploring the world of COVID-19. If you have made it this far in the series, you might be feeling a bit overwhelmed by all of the information we’re throwing your way. You’re not alone. We were feeling a bit too deep down the rabbit hole as well. So we reached out to Rosemary Walker and Peter Rosencrans, two psychology doctoral students at the University of Washington to talk to us about the mental health impacts this pandemic has had and walk us through some coping strategies (interview recorded March 20, 2020). Hang in there, everyone. To help you get a better idea of the topics covered in this episode, we have listed the questions below:

You are both in Seattle, which has been impacted longer than much of the US, so, how are you? (05:55)
This is a brand new situation for all of us that's affecting so much more than our physical health.So what are we seeing in terms of some of the mental health outcomes? (09:21)
What are some of the challenges that you, as mental health professionals, have faced so far and that you expect to appear in the future related to COVID-19? (15:59)
What are some coping strategies that we could use to deal with some of these issues? (19:15)
What are some resources for people who normally see a therapist, but who cannot now because of COVID-19? (31:43)
How can we as individuals be good neighbors, community members, in this stressful time while still protecting our mental health? (36:50)
Do you have any specific resources that our listeners could seek out? (41:09)

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1:00.8	Hi, I'm Erin Welsh and I'm Erin Almond Updike and this is this podcast will kill you.
1:09.2	Sure is. This is an episode that is chapter six of our series called Anatomy of a Pandemic,
1:16.8	which covers COVID-19 and all the different aspects of disease. It's been about a week and a half
1:23.3	since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the WHO. And since that time, our lives,
1:29.6	everyone's lives have changed dramatically, some more than others. And I think it's our tendency,
1:37.2	I can speak for both of us, Erin, right? For sure. When I say that we like to fight fear with facts,
1:42.8	but there is still so much about this virus and this pandemic that we don't know about and we
1:49.1	don't know how it's going to go. We don't have a road map for this and thinking about our personal
1:55.1	risk or our risk to others or the risk to our families or our friends or the economic outcomes.
2:00.4	I mean, all of this can send a swirling down the rabbit hole of stress and anxiety and bad dreams
2:07.2	and or lack of sleep. That's not exactly a helpful thing. No. And so we wanted to bring on a couple
2:15.6	of amazing people who can share with us some coping strategies or good practices to try to get a
2:23.0	handle on our stress and anxiety and to help us think about where it's coming from.
2:29.4	So for this episode, we were really fortunate to speak to Rosemary Walker and Pete Rosencrands
2:34.4	to graduate students at the University of Washington in psychology to talk to us about all of
2:41.0	kind of the mental health issues about this pandemic. They were really incredible to talk to. And so
2:48.0	we hope that you really enjoyed this episode. I think it was one of our favorites to
2:52.4	record because this is stuff that we don't know anything about. We go into anxiety spirals just
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