Explore and understand the many different responses to the current pandemic environment. Learn ways to manage and control reactions and adapt lifestyles to protect mental and physical health.
Course Context
While neither fatigue nor coronanxiety are diagnosable disorders, the symptoms are becoming more and more prevalent.
The most common signs of COVID Fatigue include: avoiding the news, hypoarousal – a decrease in your body’s normal response to stimuli, hyperarousal – an increase in your body’s response to stimuli, frequent mood swings, irritability when faced with an obstacle caused by COVID-19, and an inability to sleep due to overthinking. It is common to rotate through all these symptoms in a short period. It is also common to feel lonely but to paradoxically also want to be alone for much of the time.
Coronanxiety is the fear of the virus, distorted perspective and intolerance of uncertainty that can result in responses most commonly associated with Generalised Anxiety Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
Key Outcomes
- Understanding that many people are experiencing similar feelings and thoughts
- Acceptance of the normality of these responses
- Increased ability to manage and control COVID Fatigue and Coronanxiety for yourself and others
- Acknowledgement of the need to adapt lifestyle to accommodate different ways we are living to protect mental and physical health
Who Is It For?
This course is suitable for anyone who is finding their energy levels, motivation and ability to switch off to be affected by the current pandemic. It helps delegates understand that many of the symptoms are to be expected in the circumstances, and that understanding these and recognising what we do have control over can help us choose lifestyle choices that will protect our mental and physical health.
The course content and capacity can be customised for individuality and to ensure organisations’ specific learning criteria are met. Consultancy to manage covid fatigue and coronanxiety is also an option either as a standalone service or in conjunction with training.
Course Content
Understanding Coronanxiety and Covid Fatigue
- The most common signs and symptoms
- Basic neuroscience: why so many of us are experiencing similar feelings, thoughts and behaviours
Practical ways of managing emotions
- Learning to tune into the thoughts, feelings and behaviours
- Six rapid emotion regulation techniques
Thought regulation
- Reducing rumination and over thinking
- Addressing irrational and out of perspective thoughts, feelings and behaviours
- Recognising when thoughts and behaviours are normal, and when they might suggest a more serious issue
- Auditing self-care and implementing good self-care principles
Lifestyle choices
- How to build better habits
- What holds people back from making healthier lifestyle choices
- Value of connecting with others
- How to ensure good quality and sufficient sleep
- Importance of building rest into a daily routine
- Optimal nutrition and hydration
- Exercise that protects our physical and mental health
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