What is lockdown brain? And what to do about it!
Are you forgetting the simplest thing? Don’t worry, you’re not alone, lockdown has impacted us more than we could ever have imagined!
Are you forgetting the simplest thing? Don’t worry, you’re not alone, lockdown has impacted us more than we could ever have imagined!
Looking back over your life, what do you see? Do you find yourself in similar positions over and over? Do you find yourself thinking “oh, here we go again!”? Do you wonder why people seem to treat you badly? Do you repeat the same behaviours time and again?
We’re doing a good job of raising awareness of mental illness but we need to be careful that we don’t label every emotional difficulty as an illness. Language is powerful, using medical terminology to describe a normal emotional reaction is unhelpful – we need to learn to manage our normal emotions as just that.