Russia (bbabo.net), - Some people, terribly afraid of the coronavirus, break off social contacts, want to be vaccinated with some other vaccine, put off solving personal issues for a long time. What can you do to start living fully again? After all, the virus, as scientists assure, is with us for a long time, if not forever.
We asked Denis Zakharov, head of the Department of Rehabilitation of Psychoneurological Patients at the Bekhterev National Medical Research Center for Psychiatry and Neurology, about fears.
Denis Valeryevich, how dangerous is the fear of covid?
Denis Zakharov: Fear is an emotional state characteristic of every living being. We can say that fear, anxiety, anxiety are partly even the driving forces of evolution, forcing a person to strive for something new, to invent something. So fear is essential to our survival.
If a person takes elementary preventive measures, has been vaccinated, wears a mask in public places, and thereby reduces the risk of morbidity, at least in its severe form, he compensates for fear and continues to live on. This is a productive fear.
If nothing helps, and psycho-neurological changes have also begun - sleep is disturbed, problems with pressure, indigestion, vegetative manifestations in the form of sweating, decreased memory and attention - these are alarming symptoms. They need specialist help.
The person himself will not cope with the problem. Here it is appropriate to talk about unproductive fear, which does not bode well.
My acquaintance with the pandemic has become isolated, complains that she is lonely, that now because of the virus you won’t go anywhere, you won’t meet anyone. Another - decided to postpone the birth of a child until the end of the pandemic. That is, they temporarily abandoned their habits and dreams.
Denis Zakharov: It is not the virus that is "to blame" in these cases. There is an inner reluctance: in one - to find a partner, in the other - to give birth to a child.
It seems that a person wants to change his life, even plans something, but is not ready to change the situation, he is quite comfortable with what he has. 99 percent, when the pandemic subsides, such people will have other arguments: the instability of the international situation, the fear of losing their jobs, and so on.
And as for childbirth and IVF, unsuccessful outcomes - well, they were before. There is no such thing that with the coronavirus the problem has become global.
Before the coronavirus, we all experienced stressful situations all the time. This is our time.
What to do if the fear of the coronavirus does not let you relax?
Denis Zakharov: The main advice: do not hang out on the Internet. All the nonsense, well, almost everything, is written there by anxious people who, in this way, merge their emotional overstrain.
Second: get advice only from doctors - a general practitioner, a cardiologist, a neurologist. Third: follow simple rules to reduce the risk of infection. Fourth: a healthy lifestyle and exercise. Walk more, eventually take up Nordic walking - it helps everyone.
If everything has gone too far - see a doctor - a psychotherapist, a psychiatrist. No one will put you on any account, they will not report you to work.
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