Post Lockdown Anxiety

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Hey everyone!

Welcome back to yet another post on anxiety :)

A lot of you may have seen the coronavirus cases on a rise again and have gotten back into lockdown. Though people are getting vaccinated at a large scale, to control the sudden spread, we all are yet again confined to our homes. This thing may continue for a while; but what happens after that?

The world will slowly open up again and it has caused a lot of people to ponder over the thought of getting back together with people and being social.

For most teens suffering with social anxiety and other mental health issues, it hasn't been very easy. I recently came across a post on social media which spoke about "Post Lockdown Anxiety" and found out this is a very real thing affecting loads of people; which is why I decided to throw some limelight on it.

Without further ado, lets get to it.

 "Post Anxiety Lockdown"

The term literally means the anxious feeling one gets once everything goes back to normal. Returning to the old routine is itself anxiety-provoking for some people-especially among teens. For a lot of introverted, anti-social teens, the lockdown was a dream come true. Staying home, not having to go out and socialise with people much, just being in your own company, etc. was something that was enjoyed to a great extent. On the contrary, once everything has started opening up, the crippling fear or social anxiety has started to kick in for a lot of us. 

Having to go out, fear of falling ill, the terror of how people might think of them when they step out of the house or the very fact that things are starting to go back to normal are just a few examples of how that anxiety is triggered in their minds.

A couple of other reasons is coping with assessment tests are known to generate anxiety frequently in teens who face them. In academic circumstances with the continued presence of emotional disturbance, high demand, and stress, emotional and physical fatigue along with typical of burnout syndrome.

I personally haven't gone through anything of this sort which is why I won't be writing about any coping mechanisms below but I would recommend helping your peers overcome this fear. There's no one solution to it but when people come up to you and open up to you about it, don't shun it by saying "just chill, yaar" or "you're worrying about it too much". Replace that with reassuring them that it is going to be alright and they can contact you if they need need help.

(P.S. this actually applies to most kinds of situations)

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Stay masked. Stay safe.

Signing off,

Kuhu :)

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