Handbook for mental health care during COVID-19 outbreak (Part 1)
Common emotional reactions:
1. Anxiety: excessive attention to your health condition, regarding the novel coronavirus as the cause of all discomforts, and worry about getting sick.
2. Panic: suffering anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments, feeling afraid of touching elevator buttons and doorknobs, excessive hand washing and disinfection, and fear of going outside, let alone seeing a doctor.
3. Anger and irritability: highly sensitive when experiencing pressure, and getting angry, losing temper and even exhibiting impulsive behaviors because of trivialities.
4. Depression: feeling extremely tired and depressed, difficulty concentrating and experiencing sleep problems.
5. Fear: fear of the disease coupled with Internet rumors.
6. Blind optimism: mistakenly believing that the epidemic poses little risk to their lives or their immune systems protect them well from infection. Even worse, some may ignore transmission-based precautions and advice of friends and family.
7. Loneliness: those who have been in isolation or quarantine alone away from home may feel lonely.
8. Impulsion and irritation: negative emotional responses, and impulsive or irrational behaviors caused by depression.
疫情下常見的情緒反應(yīng):
1. 焦慮多疑
疫情出現(xiàn)后特別關(guān)注身體的各種變化,將自身各種不舒服與新型冠狀病毒肺炎聯(lián)系起來,懷疑自己是否生病。
2. 惶恐不安
可能會(huì)出現(xiàn)“疑病,不敢按電梯和觸摸門把手”“反復(fù)洗手、消毒”“不出門,更不敢去醫(yī)院”等行為及想法。
3. 憤怒暴躁
在壓力下變得極度敏感,因一點(diǎn)小事就急躁、發(fā)脾氣,甚至出現(xiàn)沖動(dòng)行為等。
4. 抑郁悲傷
每天都十分疲勞、精神不振,也很難集中注意力去思考,還可能出現(xiàn)睡眠問題。
5. 恐懼害怕
對(duì)于疾病本身具有恐慌情緒,加上網(wǎng)上各種謠言,出現(xiàn)恐懼害怕的情緒。
6. 盲目樂觀
抱有“疫情很遙遠(yuǎn),不會(huì)有危險(xiǎn)”“我抵抗力強(qiáng),不可能感染”的錯(cuò)誤想法,更有甚者認(rèn)為事不關(guān)己、不聽朋友及家人的勸說、不做防護(hù)。
7. 孤獨(dú)寂寞
部分特殊人群,由于疫情可能導(dǎo)致自己孤身一人在異鄉(xiāng)隔離,感到孤獨(dú)寂寞。
8. 沖動(dòng)激惹
許多人壓抑的情緒不能釋放,可能導(dǎo)致一些沖動(dòng)的、不理智的情緒及行為。