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Adapting to COVID-19: Mental Wellness in Challenging Times Facilitator: Liisa Robinson Moderator: Duane Seibel Date: October 8, 2020 Camosun College campuses are located on the traditional territories of the Lkwungen and W SNE
Facilitator: Liisa Robinson Moderator: Duane Seibel Date: October 8, 2020
Camosun College campuses are located on the traditional territories of the Lkwungen and W ̱ SÁNEĆ peoples. We acknowledge their welcome and graciousness to the students who seek knowledge here.
Map source: BC Ministry of Education.
Three words that describe how COVID can impact mental health?
The World Is Experiencing Mass Trauma from COVID-19: What You Can Do
What is an important piece of knowledge that you have about yourself or your values?
Not everyone who suffers trauma experiences post-traumatic growth, but for those who do, the changes can be lifelong. Evidence suggests that around half to two-thirds of trauma survivors experience post- traumatic growth.
When individuals feel self-pity, they become immersed in their own problems and forget that
interconnections with others, and instead feel that they are the only ones in the world who are
feelings of separation from others and exaggerate the extent of personal suffering. Self-compassion,
experiences of self and other without these feelings of isolation and disconnection.
If I accept what happened, then I approve
Then I approve of COVID, or any other circumstance I don’t want. Then I absolve people who caused harm all responsibility. Then I can’t do anything about losing my job or losing my home. I can’t change it. Then I resign myself to being miserable. Then I keep wallowing and suffering.
Step One: Think of an Important event Step Two: What Caused the Event? Step Three: Accepting the Feelings Step Four: Choosing a coping statement Step Five: Noticing places for effective action
This involves imagining acting skillfully in the worst-case scenario.
creative ways to do this. It could be climbing stairs, doing yoga, or walking in your neighborhood (if allowed).
How do you best cope ahead?
Since we place so much emphasis on walking the middle path in DBT, I think it is important to aspire to taking the pandemic very seriously (based on scientific data) while not becoming immobilized by the weight of it. My own experience of this is that I have been in my home since the end of February, except to go to the grocery
have been personally affected by illness and death. At the same time, I’m currently healthy, the sun is shining, I’m cooking and gardening, and my neighbors are being very kind to each other (from a distance). (Tony Dubose)
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