Showing posts with label acute stress response. Show all posts
Showing posts with label acute stress response. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

How to cope with your fear of the Coronavirus?

Many of us perceive the conoravirus as a serious illness or threat of death. Do you aware that this is considered as a form of traumatic event too?


People can develop acute stress response after experiencing one or more traumatic events. A traumatic event can cause significant physical, emotional, or psychological harm.
A person with acute stress response experiences psychological distress immediately following a traumatic event. Unlike PTSD, acute stress disorder is a temporary condition, and symptoms typically persist for at least 3 to 30 days after the traumatic event.
Acute stress response can trigger symptoms of anxiety or depression or both.
Symptoms of anxiety include:
-feeling a sense of impending doom
-excessive worrying
-difficulty concentrating
-fatigue
-restlessness
-racing thoughts

Symptoms of depression include:
-persistent feelings of hopelessness, sadness, or numbness
-fatigue
-crying unexpectedly
-loss of interest in activities that were once pleasurable
-changes in appetite or body weight
-thoughts of suicide or self-harm

What can you do about it now?
- Be mindful, focus on the task at hand
- Differentiate your unhealthy worry vs healthy worry (Each time avoid to spend more than 30 minute in worry)
- STOP google your symptoms
- REDUCE your social media news-reading time
- Seek for help if you need it


More info about the Acute Stress Response: 
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324354#symptoms