We’ve been cooped up now for several weeks and many of you haven’t had any real significant social contact in all that time. Some of you are not only cooped up, but laid off. Perhaps you have applied for unemployment benefits because your company has essentially shut down. Others of you own businesses and you’re beginning to wonder if you’ll even survive the economic downturn caused by the restrictions in place because of this pandemic. Many wonder if they’ll catch the dreaded virus and die.
For others, despair is starting to nibble around the edges of their thinking. You feel a sense of hopelessness overtaking you and, like a tire with a slow leak, you get a little lower every day. Whatever you might call it, you sense that you’re losing hope; the world is grey, you have a hard time enjoying life, you just can’t seem to get motivated. What can you do when you start despairing, when hope seems so elusive?
Is It the Pandemic, or Something Else?
The first thing you must do is recognize that the events of this pandemic are not causing you to despair! You cannot draw a straight line from events to your
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