Pandemic Fatigue Q & A: Mental Health, Processing The News, And Staying Occupied
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🗓️ 15 November 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Psychotherapist Gina Moffa and NPR's Linda Holmes answer listener questions about mental health, processing the news, and keeping ourselves occupied.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Audie Cornish and the last few days, weeks, months, frankly, have been a lot. |
| 0:06.6 | So I asked you all to send in some questions about how to cope with everything. |
| 0:10.6 | And you did. |
| 0:11.6 | So, this bonus episode is all about that. |
| 0:14.5 | Hope it helps. |
| 0:24.2 | Anne Finlay lives at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains in Salt Lake City, Utah. |
| 0:29.0 | And whenever she can, she rides her bike up the canyons. |
| 0:32.5 | It's just an escape going up on my bike up the mountain. |
| 0:39.2 | It's kind of slow paced. |
| 0:41.2 | And I just look at the trees and the streams. |
| 0:44.0 | And I just kind of zone out. |
| 0:46.4 | I just enjoy that time. |
| 0:50.1 | Her furthest distance so far this year, 117 miles in a day. |
| 0:56.0 | That's how I have been coping. |
| 0:58.0 | I was ready, riding my bike. |
| 0:59.6 | And what she's coping with is the same thing we're all coping with. |
| 1:03.2 | The fact that we're eight months into this pandemic and things are worse than they've ever been. |
| 1:08.5 | It just feels overwhelming. |
| 1:10.2 | I'm helping the kids of school and then working the rest of the day. |
| 1:15.8 | Finlay's daughters are eight and six, both going to school remotely. |
| 1:20.6 | Even though her job as a biomedical engineer is flexible, |
| 1:24.4 | there just aren't enough hours in the day. |
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